1. Scored free car parking. Left our umbrellas and coats in the car since there wasn’t a rain cloud in sight. Woohoo! A great start to the day.
2. Checked out all the scarecrows designed by local school children.
3. Visited the palm garden. It was amazing since they’d planted dozens of fully grown palm trees in their temporary garden.
4. Walked through the Floral display tent. The floral artists are really talented and would most likely cringe if they saw the way I jam flowers into vases.
5. Had a free cup of tea – Chai tea. Delicious and my favorite since first drinking it in India.
6. Watched some Thai ladies making butterflies out of flowers and carving flowers out of vegetables. Amazing.
7. Ambled through the dark nocturnal gardens with their pretty lights and water features. I can walk, talk and snap photos all at once. Why can’t everyone else???? Quite a few traffic jams in this exhibition. 
8. Talked to a man about gutter stop – mesh stuff to stop leaves from blocking the guttering. My sister reckons it’s worth the cost since she hates climbing onto the roof to clean the gutters every few months. The photo below is nothing to do with gutters but I liked the cacti so decided to put it here :)
9. A lady from Visique cleaned my sunglasses for me and gave me a free polishing cloth. Score!
10. Purchased a garden stake in the shape of a kiwi. My sister purchased a cat one.
11. A lady cleaned one shoe for me with this special polish stuff. I asked her very nicely to clean the other since I looked like something out of a before and after commercial. My sister purchased some of this stuff since it works on leather furniture and saddles as well as my shoes.
12. Ate lots of free samples in lieu of lunch. Toasted seeds, biscuits, chocolate, yoghurt, fruit juice, pesto to name a few. Tried out testers of hand lotions. The tomato one was quite nice. Purchased some lavender soap since I love the smell. My wardrobe will smell beautiful.
13. Lots of elderly people pushed me around but I refrained from pushing back even though I was armed with garden stakes. My sister and I decided we’d looked enough and left the garden show. Hitched a ride back to the carpark in a golf cart. My sister and the driver discussed banking. After a quiet coffee in the Botanic Garden cafe (the flower show ones were packed) we went home. I’m currently resting with a glass of wine and mentally preparing for my day of kayaking tomorrow.
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November 15th, 2007 at 6:34 am · Link
I love going to flower shows! Okay, I’m a lousy gardener – black thumb and all.
But I enjoy to be surrounded by so much beauty. Now if I go to a flower show, I’m buying poinsettias. 
November 15th, 2007 at 6:51 am · Link
I love flowers. I’m with Tempest in having a black thumb, but there’s just something about having a vase filled with fresh flowers that puts a smile on my face.
Happy T13!
November 15th, 2007 at 7:17 am · Link
Oh, I was hoping you’d post about your outing. Awesome pictures too. AND it didn’t rain!!! VERY COOL.
Glad you had a good time despite pushy senior citizens.
November 15th, 2007 at 9:37 am · Link
Sounds like fun!
*hugs*
Paige
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November 15th, 2007 at 9:54 am · Link
You gotta watch those Sr. citizens, don’t you. But it sounds like you had fun anyway.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:16 am · Link
Oh, I love lavender soap. Brought a whole bunch o’ them with me from the UK – they make the best.
November 15th, 2007 at 11:37 am · Link
Wow. Sounds like a good time. I’m glad you posted pics, too.
Loved the Spongebob scarecrow! :)
November 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm · Link
It looks like u had a great time there….The pics look wonderfull
November 15th, 2007 at 4:02 pm · Link
That sounds like such a fun day! Next year I’m going to try to go to an orchid show.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:03 pm · Link
Sounds like you had a nice time. Happy TT.
November 15th, 2007 at 7:07 pm · Link
Those veggie carvings are amazing!! Glad you had a great day and the weather stayed fine – fingers crossed it’s sunny on Friday for you too!!
November 15th, 2007 at 10:36 pm · Link
Sounds like it was a lovely diversion!
November 16th, 2007 at 12:54 pm · Link
Neat veggie carvings! But all that work for a few days of visual satisfaction… I dunno. Couldn’t beat the Sponge Bob scarecrow :D
November 16th, 2007 at 7:06 pm · Link
‘Lots of elderly people pushed me around but I refrained from pushing back even though I was armed with garden stakes’
LOL! Never underestimate the determination of a pensioner.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm · Link
Great post!
I attended a Sr. expo last year for people > 49. Old ladies were taking the free cookies and dumping them into paper bags along with literature they had picked up. You were only suppose to take 1 cookie to eat but they were practically dumping plate fulls in their bags – loose!