| Get away for the day to Santa Barbara, the popular beach city known as “America’s Riviera.” Characterized by unique shopping, great food and distinctive architecture, downtown Santa Barbara offers palm-lined thoroughfares where you’ll be surrounded by charming shops and boutiques, tantalizing eateries and beautiful buildings. The State Street Promenade is a newly created pedestrian mall where multiple blocks of State Street are closed to vehicle traffic allowing restaurants and other businesses to expand onto sidewalks and into Santa Barbara’s main boulevard, infusing a sense of energy and vitality. Paseo Nuevo is Santa Barbara’s Mediterranean-style, outdoor shopping center that features a variety of name brand stores. Enjoy time at your leisure for lunch on your own here and along State Street. This afternoon, we celebrate the world’s most exotic flower at 75th annual International Orchid Show – one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious horticulture events in the world! Enjoy time at leisure exploring orchid art, photography and grand orchid arrangements installed by local, national and international artisans. Featuring over a half-acre of orchids, the show provides a rare opportunity to explore an unprecedented variety of orchid species and hybrids – each a living and gorgeous work of art that celebrates the orchid’s beguiling depth and color. Grower demonstrations, workshops, exhibitors vying for the titles of “Best Orchid in Show” and “Grand Champion Cymbidium,” and vendors selling a variety of orchids, makes this a rich and unique orchid experience. |