Botanical Gardens

The Norfolk Botanical Gardens is fantastic.  This summer they have a special play area call the Enchanted Story Book Forest.  It has a bunch of storybook houses constructed for the kids to play in... check it out.

The Crooked Man -

Huckleberry Finn's adventures - The raft wobbles like a real raft and the 2 per seesaw was cool.

The Grandmother's house from Little Red Riding Hood - the kids favorite house.

The Old Lady Who lived in a Shoe and had so many Children she didn't know what to do -

The Tree Trek, where the Botanical Gardens took some of the 40 plus trees they lost in the Nor-Easter in November and put a trail for the kids to walk.  It also had signs and info sheets explaining the different types of trees.

Old McDonalds Farm - I didn't get pictures of the barn, but Buddy LOVED the horse swing.

The Three little pigs - There was actually 3 houses, but the others were blown down by the wolf, the kids climbed under the remains, but I didn't get pictures.

Alice in Wonderland - had tea set play sets inside the house.

Jack and the Beanstalk had a pretty good vegetable garden too with Pumpkins, tomatoes eggplant and lots of other stuff.

They also had a bunch of gnome homes that they built and sticks and garden pots with extra gnomes so the kids could build their own.

I didn't get pictures of the lots of other stuff for the kids to do, or the Butterfly garden which was pretty simple last year, but this year has gotten huge with LOTS more butterflies. 

If the weather stays cool, we will have to go back again this week.  It was a GREAT time, and the kids could have easily spent several days there. Plus the fountains and other stuff to do there. It is a great place.