For the Mothership's birthday, we hit the road to find SPRING. To see if it truly exists. It was supposed to rain all weekend. We were so lucky. It sprinkled all the way there. Thankfully, every time we got out of the car it was dry. It was pretty gloomy. Many dark, bad pictures.
The Tulip Festival runs through the month of April. It's located is about 1 hr north of Seattle, in beautiful fields of the Skagit Valley. Very picturesque. Snow in the foothills, and buds below.
Most of the flowers were just peeking out. It's been pretty cold and they were a bit shy.
In the usual swing of things you can see fields and fields of nothing but COLOR. We just saw several smaller fields of daffodils. The brightest gold you've every seen. Maybe that was just the gloomy sky making them pop.
"NASTY JACK'S" THE COOLEST ANTIQUE STORE AROUND
Our first stop was the tiny town of La Conner. It was first settled in the late 1800's but still only has about 760 people living there today. Gorgeous old homes are everywhere. Many beautiful old farmhouses too, on the outskirts.....and churches! We saw many! For a town so small.
This is the Quilt and Textile Museum. So sweet. So sweet, we got out of the car, walked up the yard, and almost made it inside. I just imagined some little Old Betty's watching you. Making sure you didn't poke, sneeze, or pull on anything.
"CITY HALL-Exactly the same Since 1890" maybe
Tulip time! We found an information booth that gave us a map of the well known farms that had things to see and do. A few of these places you had to pay a little admission to get in. We unfortunately paid admission to the wrong one. We went to (kid you not!) Tulip Town. Sounded promising at the time. They did have a fountain, windmill, and a pretty little groomed garden with quite a few different varieties. Then you could walk out down a little lane with several rows of about 4-5 different colored blooms.
I was happy to get up close and personal with some. After leaving Tulip Town, we drove right by the one that we kicked ourselves for not seeing first. Maybe next year. Maybe there'll be sun!
It was so windy and cold, there weren't a lot of picnic areas. In the middle of tulip land we pulled off next to a daffodil field.After a lovely wind blown day we headed south to Scott & Mercedes' for the birthday bash. Scott made a delicious meal for the mother.
So good...I didn't take a picture, so you wouldn't be jealous. I'm sorry it was for the best.
Dinner was followed by these little tasty bites. A new phenomenon in the cake world. Cake Pops. Cupcakes, even smaller. I'm going to make "Cake Dots", and be a millionaire.
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