Tulip Time

Last weekend we headed out to Holland for the Tulip Time festival. Holland is a town know for it's Dutch influence, so we thought we'd see a few tulips and maybe a few wooden shoes. But we had such a fun time with the girls and we wished we could have stayed longer to walk around and really take in all the tulips that were there.

Upon arriving in Holland we went directly to Kinderplaats. We had to wait in line to purchase our ticket, but the wait and Alyssa's entrance fee were well worth it. We immediately headed over toward the farm animals, where Alyssa got to see a camel, tortoises, bunnies, and goats. Alyssa tends to be quite afraid of animals, so we were shocked when she was willing to feed the goats carrots. Lauren even made a few friends with the goats.







From there we watched Farmer John's Farm Show in which we watched kids feed lambs bottles, a dog perform tricks, the farmer milk a cow, and a pig run around and squeal. That was a lot of fun, and I think Alyssa enjoyed it. After the show, we headed over toward one of the tents where Alyssa got her face painted and then we let her jump in an inflatable "bouncer". It took her a while to work up to going in there, but once she did, she enjoyed herself.You could see her smiling, hear her giggling, and even hear her say "I falled down" a few times. After this, we took a quick stroll past one of the tulip fields/gardens. There were so many different colors and sizes - it was beautiful. We didn't have the time to explore as we would have liked as we were all hungry and we were closing in on nap time. But we did try to take a few pictures of the girls with the tulips.





As we were leaving Lauren was saying "bye bye". Although you can't hear her necessarily, you can see her hand waving and her lips moving.




And here is Alyssa talking a little about the day at dinner that night.