Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

On April 26th we drove up to check out the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, which takes place every year ~1hr North of us. The online maps for the festival are not the most readable, so when we first arrived we ended up driving down a lot of country roads behind tractors and past cows, with no tulips in site. Eventually we found our way to the RoozenGaarde display garden, which is a living catalog for a bulb company in the area. We wandered around here for a while, admiring all of the tulip varieties that were blooming:





It might look like a trick of perspective, but those blooms are actually almost as large as Becky's head!



While impressive, we were still looking for the vast fields of tulips that had been promised to us by coworkers and websites alike. After consulting another map, we headed towards some of the fields that were marked as in bloom and discovered what we were looking for, along with the hordes of people we were not. Thankfully these fields are huge, and with a little walking you can escape off from the crowds.






A volcano (Mt. Baker), fields of tulips, and a motorized parachute!


We could have wandered around those fields all day, but we decided to move on and check out the nearby town of La Conner and grab a bite to eat. La Conner was packed, and it felt like a coastal town in Maine, except for the fact that they were having a protest boat parade:

Always something interesting out here...