October 27th, 2009

Tuesday October 27th, 2009
Good morning-We started off the day with going to a "shopping "area of Auckland that Dawn took us to. We did some window shopping and then went to St. Helieis Bay area for lunch. After lunch we went to a local bakery for some wonderful breads and a couple of bakery treats. At 1pm we visited New Zealand Bloom which is a grower of some flowers that are sent to Koehler and Dramm, if you don't know that is the floral wholesale house in Minneapolis where Mom works. The flowers were beautiful and we saw orchids and peonies. Next David and Mike from New Zealand Bloom took us to an orchid greenhouse named Joshua that supplies the orchids for New Zealand Bloom. Joshua is owned by two brothers originally from Holland. It was spectacular. Of course as we mentioned before the orchid season is coming to an end but it was full of hundreds and hundreds of orchid plants and about 1/4 of the greenhouse had orchids that were ready to be cut, packed, and shipped. After all of that beauty we were beat so we went back to Belinda and Steve's to have a wonderful dinner made by Steve and then off to bed.
Cristin