My husband and I are celebrating 23 years of marriage this weekend and one place we have never been to is the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. This weekend we decided to go visit there and then we went out to eat at the Outback Steakhouse.
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If you’ve been up to this area you are aware that the Case Western Reserve University is home here as well as the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History…two of my favorite places over the years to visit! All of this sits near each other and a park. There is garage parking as well as curbside parking and in the past at times curb side parking would be free (so double check before you put money in the meter).
The outside garden is huge and has different themes, inside the building you have two glass houses (think giant greenhouses and one has a second story bridge section to walk) and some other features from a sensory play place on the second flood, a small (pricey) cafe and gift shop and more on the first floor. The day we visited there was a wedding happening in part of the outdoor section.
I was so impressed with the great thoughtfulness the Cleveland Botanical Gardens has put into the children’s sections that I wanted to write about it. I don’t know how much a membership cost but if I thought it was affordable and I would visit often I would highly recommend a family with young children considering buying that for their family use…especially homeschooling families!
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I did not plan to write a post about our visit so I didn’t get a lot of pics of most of what I saw for kids but all the better so you can go check it out for yourself. The outdoor gardens had a two story tree house with books, climbing area, little cave section, mud pie table area, real honey bee section enclosed, and inside was a roomy beautiful sensory learning area that opened up from the second level glass house garden.
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The two glass house gardens had some small animals. The one with the second level has butterflies, birds, ducks, a chipmunk. There is an amazing looking chameleon in the sensory room (enclosed) and an employee had a couple in one of the glass houses. The above picture is me taking a picture of my husband taking a picture of me 😀 .
See a short video from my Youtube channel of the Panther Chameleon my husband and I saw enclosed in a tank in the children’s sensory room outside the second floor of this glass house garden.
Learn more from this older post I wrote about saving money on museum memberships for your family, be sure to check it out.
