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We went to visit

We went to visit an orchid garden on Monday. I'd never been before, but Taylor had. I thought it would be a good place to take my parents. Turns out my Mom didn't want to take the whole tour. With her heart problems it wasn't good for her to walk up hills, and there was a lot of up and down as we walked through the garden. The tour was about an hour. Normally two hours, but we asked for the short version. They garden is on 72 hectares of land. I think that's a bit more than three square miles. It's big, and a beautiful place. They have over 300 varieties of orchids, 72 varieties of bromelias, and about 70 varieties of another plant I can't remember the name of. They had some flowers there that looked like lips. That inspired Dustin. The paint on his face is from another plant the the indians in the Ecuadorian jungle use for painting their faces.