Today, we enjoyed a fantastically beautiful day in so many ways! Bright sunny, great people, beautiful butterflies & plants, and awesome surroundings. To top the day we had a very nice Italian meal at Buca di Beppo. Our group was relatively small with only 17 of us; but that makes everything more manageable.
We arrived with perfect timing, thanks to our driver, Andrew. This allowed us to be a few minutes early with the best parking and time for a short break. Of course, we were early enough to beat the crowds, too.
There are also some nice surroundings at the Krohn's Conservatory. These include the river (not shown), a Water Tower (also known as the Stand Pipe) and a floral clock. The conservatory is located in Eden Park along with the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Elsinor Arch Castle, a pavilion and gazebo. There is a lot more to do here than we did. It takes younger legs than ours to traipse round this park!
Some of our people were contented to relax for a bit, too!
We arrived with perfect timing, thanks to our driver, Andrew. This allowed us to be a few minutes early with the best parking and time for a short break. Of course, we were early enough to beat the crowds, too.
As I always say, you can click on an image to see a larger version
There are also some nice surroundings at the Krohn's Conservatory. These include the river (not shown), a Water Tower (also known as the Stand Pipe) and a floral clock. The conservatory is located in Eden Park along with the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Elsinor Arch Castle, a pavilion and gazebo. There is a lot more to do here than we did. It takes younger legs than ours to traipse round this park!
As the photo above on the left illustrates, we had a great parking place just outside the entrance to the conservatory!
We entered the butterfly exhibit through a controlled environment to give the butterflies a climate similar to the Caribbean and also keep them contained in that environment. The nice thing about this is that they were flying all around us and frequently landed on us. They gave us something to allow the butterflies to climb on and give us a closer look or shot for photography. Unfortunately that beautiful blue ones never seemed to land with their wings spread and the color disappeared leaving them a dull gray/brown color.
Yup! That's Marie photobombing this young lady!
Some of the ladies became friendly with the butterflies
I assume the guys weren't fond of BUGS!
I assume the guys weren't fond of BUGS!
There were also some nice flowers and plants in the conservatory.
Some of our people were contented to relax for a bit, too!
After seeing the butterflies and plants, we drove over to Buca di Beppo for a nice lunch of Chicken Parmesan, Ravioli, 2 kinds of salad followed with a raspberry cheesecake.
I guess this was the Pope's table!
All in all, this was a very enjoyable trip, with great companions, good scenery and very tasty food! I recommend this venue for anyone!
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