Monday, February 10, 2014

Okinawa International Orchid Show

Monday, February 10, 2014
Today, I went with the girls to the Okinawa International Orchid Show. It was at the Ocean Expo Park Tropical Dream Center (right next to the Aquarium). The whole botanical garden was beautiful but the Orchids were especially so! I also had no clue there were so many types!
 Butterfly Orchids
 One of the most unique I saw was the cobra orchid. It has little tiny flowers up the stem!
Some more different orchids. 
The ruffled ones look like irises to me.
 Big orchids and little tiny ones! 
Drapey ones and black orchids. 
Competition Winners!
Around us are all real flowers! 
 After the seeing the orchids we walked through the gardens. I just love these trees! I like to call them pompom trees. I've seen them in white and red here. 
Here is my funny Japanese find for the day. It is called a Gargle...and it is used for just that! You turn it on and put some on the mouth wash in your mouth, gargle it, and then spit it out! I thought it was so funny!  

2 comments :

Tricia Nielsen said...

Preeeeettttyyy :-)
And, be honest, did you use the Gargle? ;-)

anna said...

haha. I didn't gargle - I made one of my friends do it. She said it was very refreshing.