The week before Mother's Day the girls and I took a day trip with granny to Holland Michigan for the Tulip Time festival and if the name doesn't give it away or you had expected to see anything but tulips you would have been sadly mistaken. Holland is a city in Michigan that is rich Dutch culture and their website happily exclaims that, "Long time residents can't imagine living anywhere else; newcomers wonder why they didn't move here sooner!" When I told Kennedy that we were going to a tulip festival she kept asking me if she was going to be able to ride the rides. I can't tell you how many times I had to tell her that there weren't going to be any rides.
We had the most perfect weather and overall it was a very laid back day. Next year I will do better research and likely plan to stay overnight because there was in fact an actual carnival with rides in their main downtown area but we had either arrived just after the setup or were visiting during "non-business" hours because nothing was up and running. You should've seen the look Kennedy gave me; the ultimate I-told-you-so grin.
We found a random parking lot that was a close walk to one of the noted recreation/tulip viewing areas on the Tulip Time map.
Piper wanted absolutely nothing to do with these statues. She kept saying, "I don't like him."
And Kennedy really knows how to lock down a photo op.
How coincidental that the 'World Friendship' sponsored tulip patch was dead.
Then we stopped and ate our little brown-bag style lunch we brought with us and explored in town for a little while.
This park was not overly large but there were still SO MANY tulips! Varieties that I never knew existed as well as colors but I'm also not a botanist on any level. If flowers are your thing I would highly recommend making the trip at some point especially if a vacation to The Netherlands is out of your budget. Even though the festival was slotted to go another week at the time we visited I'm glad we went when we did because some of the plots were very noticeably past their prime and/or dead.
Tulip Time ® is a registered trademark of Holland Tulip Time Festival, Inc.
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