I shouldn't rub it in - but IT WAS GREAT! We pooped out before we made it over to the 2 open houses! And just to make it really irritating for all you Species Snobs - there were tons of booths with species from OZ, NZ, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Taiwan, China, Thailand, etc., etc. Even Hoa found one or two he hadn't gotten or seen before.

I wound up with 6 new treasures, 3 catts, 1 phal (a really cool hybrid - I hope) and one paph (from Norito) and a neofinetia falcata. I was really tempted by a couple of other paphs, but I'm just plain out of room for a little while. They had Greenteaicecreamandraspberries in bud and a wowza of a Bel Royal ... course I have one of those... and 3 or 4 other of those really, really dark shiny vini paphs.. tons of vandas and a couple of $1000 plants.