Hola blog. I had planned on attending to you yesterday, but between my hour-plus-long eyelash extensions appointment (hooray!), going to Populuxe with Joshy for delicious Peruvian brisket sannies, and then a quick trip to the Skin Cancer Palace for a little pre-vacation cuh-luh I ran out of Friday. Ah well. Here’s my face on the way to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival last Sunday.

The tulip festival is a pretty big deal around here–everyone’s heard of it, and most people I talked to had been several times. We had talked about going for years…but this time we wrote it down on the calendar and made it happen!

A view of Mount Baker from the car (note the windshield glare). I see this mountain every morning while driving to work.

Being the geriatrics we are (I was up at 6:30 this morning), we arrived at the tulip fields pretty early…between 9 and 9:30. The traffic was starting up, but was significantly thicker on our way out. A cop was ticketing every single car parked directly in front of the tulip field, where “no parking” signs were posted.

There were plenty of paid parking spots around, but we lucked out and parked for free at a nursery across the street.

Joshy took this photo of this beautiful pink flowered tree in the nursery parking lot.

You can make out the people across the tulip field. The side we came in was fairly uncrowded.

I spotted a man with cameras hanging all over his body and asked him to take our photo. He obliged–but had the same problem that I have with my new camera–it has no viewfinder, just the LCD screen, making photography in bright sunshine extremely difficult.

However…who could possibly complain about the sunshine? The weather was gorgeous. Last Sunday was probably the warmest day we’ve had all year.

I tried to make my outfit match the tulip fields.

Josh photographing the photographers. The lady with the long dress was snapping pictures the entire time, murmuring, “It’s so beautiful…it’s so beautiful…”

I loved the purple tulips.

And again.

The crouching pose seemed like a good idea at the time.

This is a nice shot.

Poser!

On the way back to the car, we passed a food stand in the nursery selling crepes. I happen to be a bit of a CREPE FIEND, but we only had 12 dollars on us, so we split a huge strawberry crepe.

It was delicious.

We only experienced a teeny-tiny corner of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, of course, but we got our fill. It was definitely worth it! We had packed hiking clothes and supplies and the dogs and were planning on doing a hike afterwards, but the highway was closed due to the terrible mudslide in Oso that had been all over the local news this past month. We ended up going to our beloved Marymoor Dog Park instead…more about that later on!

Today’s plan is to clean the house for Mumsie’s arrival next week, maybe do a little fiction writing, maybe do a little painting. Tomorrow on Easter Sunday we are going to Josh’s grandmother’s house for Easter dinner, where we’ll also be celebrating my Old Man’s 40th birthday, which is Monday. Ooh, that reminds me, I have a present to wrap.