Sunday, May 10, 2009
Tulip Time
Ok, so here in Holland, MI we have a yearly 10 day festival called Tulip Time. During these ten days thousands of tourists descend upon our town to view the tulips, visit the Dutch theme parks, and watch hundreds of high school students dressed in provential Dutch attire and wooden shoes dance their way around the various downtown areas. Complete with carnivals, fireworks, food, drink, music, concerts, and various other forms of entertainment, Tulip Time is an awesome experience! Oh, an lest I forget, those lovely tulips. 
We had such a fun time going around and looking at all of the beautiful tulips and enjoying our day together as a family. My babies were lovely in front of this tulip bed at the Dutch Theme Park. But I must confess, I am glad that Tulip Time has come to a close for the year. Thousands of tourists descending on us and not knowing how to drive in our town has gotten a little old. Turning left at stop lights on highway 31 is not allowed, you have to turn right and do these turn-around things. But tourists don't read signs and do it anyway. Accidents galore! Also, they tend to see some pretty tulips, throw on the brakes, park in the middle of the road (illegal? yes. do they still do it? Yes.) and get out to spend ten minutes taking pictures of tulips. Apparantly they didn't notice the parking area one block ahead. Our favorite thing to watch, however, were the Dutch dancers. The costumes were so cool. Here are a couple pics of one of our town criers and his wife. I took some video and here it is. Oh, FYI. Those shoes they wear are made of wood and they d
o sometimes come off. When we were at the Dutch Theme Park one shoe flew about 35 feet through the air and landed in the water! Watch out for flying shoes is indeed good advice. My children, husband, and I watched fireworks over the lake and enjoyed every minute of the carnival and fun to be had. Fair food tasted pretty good again! Next year we hope to do and see more, but Caitlynn got very sick with Right Lower Lobe Pneumonia and a Urinary Tract Infection. Poor baby, her fever rocketed from 99.6 in the morning to 103.8 in the Urgent Care that evening. She is good now with an intensive antibiotic treatment underway, but we were really worried about her. It came out of nowhere and shocked us all!
We had such a fun time going around and looking at all of the beautiful tulips and enjoying our day together as a family. My babies were lovely in front of this tulip bed at the Dutch Theme Park. But I must confess, I am glad that Tulip Time has come to a close for the year. Thousands of tourists descending on us and not knowing how to drive in our town has gotten a little old. Turning left at stop lights on highway 31 is not allowed, you have to turn right and do these turn-around things. But tourists don't read signs and do it anyway. Accidents galore! Also, they tend to see some pretty tulips, throw on the brakes, park in the middle of the road (illegal? yes. do they still do it? Yes.) and get out to spend ten minutes taking pictures of tulips. Apparantly they didn't notice the parking area one block ahead. Our favorite thing to watch, however, were the Dutch dancers. The costumes were so cool. Here are a couple pics of one of our town criers and his wife. I took some video and here it is. Oh, FYI. Those shoes they wear are made of wood and they d
o sometimes come off. When we were at the Dutch Theme Park one shoe flew about 35 feet through the air and landed in the water! Watch out for flying shoes is indeed good advice. My children, husband, and I watched fireworks over the lake and enjoyed every minute of the carnival and fun to be had. Fair food tasted pretty good again! Next year we hope to do and see more, but Caitlynn got very sick with Right Lower Lobe Pneumonia and a Urinary Tract Infection. Poor baby, her fever rocketed from 99.6 in the morning to 103.8 in the Urgent Care that evening. She is good now with an intensive antibiotic treatment underway, but we were really worried about her. It came out of nowhere and shocked us all!
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