The weather in Okinawa has been very rainy and dreary lately. My friend Christine and I had made plans to visit a sunflower field on the first sunny day in the forecast- and about ten days of rain later we finally had a day that was expected to be partly cloudy. Unfortunately, all of the rain had ruined the sunflowers and the scheduled festival to celebrate them had been canceled. Since this is technically Spring in Okinawa, we had no trouble finding another flower to celebrate: tulips! The Tropical Dream Center in Expo Park was hosting a tulip festival, and with an admission price of less than seven dollars we decided to go photograph some flowers.
The Tropical Dream Center is a kind of botanical garden with multiple greenhouses and different exhibitions throughout the year. According to the website, 80,000 tulip bulbs of different types and colors were planted, and as a result when we walked into the garden we were amazed by the rows and rows of tulips lining the paths.
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| Nora loved the flowers and called them all pink, but not so much all of the photographs... |
After walking through the gardens and feeding the fish we decided to feed ourselves- only to realize that three of our top choices were closed on Wednesdays! Fortunately we found the restaurant La Tilla so close to the gardens we could have walked, and even though it sounds Spanish to me it serves Italian and Okianwan dishes. I thought the prices were reasonable and I loved that one entire wall of the restaurant was glass windows overlooking the ocean.
Since it is only January Christine, Nora and I should be able to find many other flowers in season very soon, even if Nora prefers the flowers over the photographs.
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