With a thousand beautiful Blue Morphos gliding through the conservatory during the month of July, the Museum of Life and Science celebrated their arrival with a party! Guests enjoyed a special after-hours view of the Magic Wings Conservatory and sampled foods from South and Central America, the birthplace of the Blue Morphos.
Welcome to Noche de las Mariposas at the Museum of Life and Science
Our guest of honor for the evening, the Blue Morphos butterfly
Uli Hartmond, Director at the Butterfly House, gives an educational tour to the guests
The evening also included a behind the scenes tour of the butterfly house
The Magic Wings Conservatory is beautiful anytime of year
One of the permanent residents of the butterfly house isn’t a butterfly, it’s a Crested Wood Partridge
Tara Neal
Uli Hartmond
Sharon Zeigler
The butterlies really took a liking to Stewart Johnson
Alyssa O’Reilly, Bob O’Reilly
Outside the Butterfly House, the party was well underway
Sarah Almeida, Carl Almeida
Cavett French, Barker French
Jean McGuire, Bonnie Cheek, Bryn Smith, Marcie Logan
Alicia Heathcock, Ro Rode
David Jensen, Maria Oyaski
Kevin Hayden, Laura Hayden, Eleanor Boyd
Jane Kestenbaum, Stewart Johnson
Alexis Weiss and Different Drum performed for the guests
Jean Willard, John Willard
Michelle Kendall, Sharon Zeigler
Sandi Corcoran, Tim Corcoran
The train was also running for evening tours
Arlene Diosegy, Debbie Douglass
Ron Hutchinson, Rosemary Hutchinson
Trish Kohler, Glenna Hurlbert
Rachel Mandell, Mark Rogerson
Keeping with the theme of the evening, tradtional Costa Rican dance performers entertained the guests.
Throughout the evening, there were special nighttime tours of the Butterfly House
Ryan Chung, Tracy Kline
Tony Smith, Tara Neal
In the evening, the look of the Butterfly House is completely different
At night, you have to look more closely for the butterflies
It was a lovely evening for a party!
