Yummy Thai and Peace Prayer Park

We spent President's Day at the Southeast Botanical Gardens where the flowers were out in full bloom:

We'll Never Get Lost with Denver Around

Saturday we went to explore the southern part of the island. We started with lunch at a yummy Thai restaraunt called Cafe Caracuma and it has an awesome view (aka Thai in the Sky):

Not Your Typical Waiting Room
Denver and McCall really enjoyed the "waiting room" at Cafe Caracuma. There was a fossil/dinosaur musem, art gallery, cultural museum, botanical garden, walking trail and an ocean viewing area. It definitely beats waiting around in a cramped 10ft x 10ft waiting room. Denver's favorite was the replica of the T-Rex cranium (see background of above picture).

To Our Surprise the Food was Even Better than the Waiting Room
Everything was VERY flavorful. All of the herbs and many other ingredients in the entrees are grown in the gardens and greenhouses right outside the restaraunt.

A True Seafood Salad does not just Contain Canned Shrimp and Imitation Crab

Nothing tickles the taste buds like some fresh baby octopus legs, mussels, and various other unknown sea creatures. To our shock McCall really liked the mussels.

We ended our Saturday of exploration by visiting Peace Prayer Memorial Park. The Battle of Okinawa occurred near the end of WWII and was the largest Battle of the Asian Pacific war. Over 200,000 people died in less than 90 days and more than half of those were innocent Okinawan civilians. Unlike most war memorials which only honor their country's fallen soldiers, Peace Prayer Memorial Park honors all of those who died including civilians and the U.S. soldiers who died in the Battle of Okinawa:

The Names of the Fallen Soldiers and Civilians are Engraved in Stone Walls (see picture background)

The Eternal Fountain and Flame of Peace

McCall is contemplating how she can disturb the peace.