Friday, May 17, 2013

Tip Toe through the Tulips

So each year in the Skagit valley a mere 1 hour north of Seattle there are many, many fields of Tulips that bloom.  They even have a festival to celebrate said blooming.  I am not sure why but I have never had much interest in a jaunt up to view the Tulip fields.  Before the kids there was no way I would have wasted a weekend day in late snowshoe season to look at a bunch of flowers, and since the kids I was thinking that a one hour plus drive to look at bunch of flowers might be rubbish.  However this year I wanted to go.  The kids are older,  we could go for lunch, it might be fun.

So we decided on a sunny "field trip" Thursday to head North and check out all the fuss was about.  Of course no adventure would be complete without the BFF's so we agreed on a time and place to meet and went on our way.

We decided on Tulip Town as it was supposed to be very kid friendly, then lunch in La Conner before heading home.  We actually had a great time.  The weather was amazing, the flowers were beautiful, the kids loved the mud, flowers and the ice cream.  We had lunch outside overlooking the water in La Conner.  Sadly, the only downer was that Miles had a tuna sandwich that gave him food poisoning.  After we got home Shannon reported that he had been violently sick twice on the way home, and he was sick for 2 more days.  Next year we'll be eating at the brewery:)


Friday, May 10, 2013

I'm back!

So I have fallen off the blogging wagon, I know it has been forever.  I have no excuse really apart from the fact that my kids are awake for about 14 hours each day and that at the end of those 14 hours the very last thing I want to do is think about my kids, never mind write about them:)

But I am recommitting to a blog a week, to document their evolution and so their grandparents can see them from afar.  For I am sure that no matter how much M and Z overload I have, it is not the same for their Nana's.

So here are a few pictures from our recent trip to Northwest trek.  This is a sort of local (ish) safari park, that is home to animals typically found in the Northwest.  It was nice to get out and do something different.  They have lovely hiking trails through the grounds and a tram tour out into the meadow.  They also have a lot of really stupid people on the tram, that think it is awesome to lean out the window to stroke the bison.  The most awesome was the "Gamma" that held out her 3 year old grandson outside the entire window.  Sadly, he survived as that is a gene pool we really don't need to perpetuate.