Kitanakagusuku Sunflowers

 A few weeks ago, we ventured out to a small sunflower festival.  It was in Kitanakagusuku (Nakagusuku City).  Luckily we have great neighbors who knew where they were going, otherwise I don't know that we would have found it.

                              We also found where Cabbage Patch kids are born! ;-)

                        They had little paths throughout the fields, which allowed people to walk through them.

                              If you can't tell how tall they are, here is Avi standing next to them

                There was a small clearing in one part, so we couldn't pass up a family picture.

All of their neighbor friends.  I wish we had gotten a picture of the Japanese paparazzi. As we were taking this picture, there were about 5 Japanese taking it as well.

                          Alex had fun playing with his new lens, and getting close ups of the bees.

They had a ton of beautiful flowers for sale. It's amazing at how many different varieties they can grow at the same time. Poinsettias next to sunflowers?

Unfortunately they were out of sunflowers for sale, which we couldn't really understand since there were fields of them. Seeing as there is a huge language barrier, we didn't know which hand gestures would get our question across, so we all went with the flowers for sale.  Most were relatively cheap, the girls paid around 60 yen for theirs.  That's less than $1.  I am happy to say that all 5 that we bought are all still alive sitting in our kitchen window.