We made it to Washington's tulip festival for the first time! Lots and lots of lovely flowers and the kids' favorite thing was probably the rivulets in the dirt. Ha.
Since it's a 1.5-2-hour drive we decided to go up the night before and stay at a hotel which the kids haven't done in a long time so they loved it and thought it was so fun. It took a while to get them settled down to bed but they did pretty well! Gwen slept in our pack'n'play that we brought.
In the morning the kids and I got free hotel breakfast which was delicious. Bry brought overnight oats that he ate since he can't eat from buffet-type places for the time being (and since there were limited plant-based options).
We got to Roozengaarde about half an hour after it opened and there were already a LOT of cars but it didn't take very long to get parked which was good. Roozengaarde is one of 4 tulip gardens making up the "Skagit Valley Tulip Festival [which] is the largest tulip festival in the USA by acreage of tulips, number of farms, and days of blooms." (visitskagitvalley.com)
We spent a couple hours walking around before leaving to make the drive home, making stops for lunch along the way. It wasn't a particularly long excursion overall but it was fun to see something special together as a family and to get out of the house for a bit.
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| He's a wackadoo. Lol. |
