This past weekend we headed to Orange City, IA for Tulip Festival! Actually Dave took the day off on Friday so we could go on a day which was less busy than on the weekend. We met Lanae, Damian, and Desirae there. We got there and had packed a picnic lunch. We spread out our blanket on the courthouse lawn and had a nice picnic lunch together!
Lanae and Desirae enjoying the picnic!
After lunch we walked around to see all of the tulips, they were in full bloom and so full of color this year. It was fun to see them all. We went to a house that sells them the tulip bulbs straight from Holland. We walked through the garden and picked out the ones that we thought would look good in our garden and bought some bulbs!
These are the ones we picked. We thought we better have a couple of tulips since we are Dutch! Mykala liked the pink and white!
After our walk we made our way to the parade route! we had to get front row seats to the parade! First they have all the people from town sweep and clean the streets so they are clean for the royal court to come down and then the parade starts!
Even the little ones help with the street cleaning!
the kids loved the parade! We had to get out our umbrellas a couple of times because it started to sprinkle a little bit, but we did not get wet until we were heading to our cars, which is a good time for it to rain!
Here are a couple of pictures for you to enjoy of the kids by the tulips!
Notice how they are holding hands. Landon LOVES his cousin Rae-Rae!!
The kids found a dog to pet at the gardens where we bought our tulips. He did not care one bit that they wanted to pet him, he loved the people!
After the festival we went over to Lanae's house and had pizza with the whole fam. I took some cute pictures of Desirae, I thought I would share!! She is too cute not too!
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