On our way to see the butterflies

Sunday morning we got up, had breakfast, and headed to El Rosario Monarch Reserve. Once we parked we had to walk quite a way uphill through huts with shops and restaurants in them. The kids complained the whole way, but we finally made it to the horses that were going to take us up the mountain to an altitude of 10,000 feet.

Ryan helping Lydia walk the "balance beam"

The trek to the horses

Yay!

Family picture by the entrance

Horses waiting to take people to the butterflies

Lydia rode with me for her first horseback ride

Ethan rode with Charlotte for his first time on a horse

View from the horse

Ryan and Sarah

Our first butterflies

Looking for butterflies

I didn't realize that James had never been on a

horse before! I think he and Nolan both

enjoyed their first horseback ride.

Ryan rode his own horse down the mountain