Tulip Festival

This weekend we went to a Tulip Festival and had a great time. For some reason I had it in my head that at the Tulip Festival we would see fields of tulips. It was not like that. We walked on winding paths through a massive garden—we were there for about three hours and could have easily stayed longer—and saw the tulips arranged in beautiful flower beds with a few other kinds of flowers.

There were also some special arrangements of the flowers, such as "the secret garden" and "the fragrance garden." The secret garden was very much as its name suggests. It's a walled garden filled to the brim with flowers, and it was gorgeous! The fragrance garden was also very much as its name suggests—fragrant. Although I don't know that it was any more fragrant than other parts of the festival, but the fabulous smells coming from the flowers was delightful!

This was technically our first family outing, and I was a little anxious as to how Charlie would behave. But he was an angel! He was perfectly happy to sit in his stroller and be pushed around. All in all it we had an excellent time—even Chad who thought going to see a bunch of flowers would be totally lame.

After all that, I am now completely ready for springtime—bring it on! Too bad it's cold and rainy today, but May showers bring June flowers?