Im the beginning I also missed being able to walk in the rows of tulips. Tulip Town has signs everywhere asking you not to walk the roads. I thought I would miss that... I mean, you can't walk the fields? Only the edges? But in the end I loved it because it allowed me to get photos like these...
See? All those tulips and not a single person wandering the fields in the background. And since we went on a busy Saturday, you can imagine how difficult these would have been to get at our regular tulip field. We did, in fact, go with family on this excursion. We even accosted some random stranger and asked them to take a photo of all 8 of us. Those pictures, however, are on my brothers camera. So I'm at his mercy and will have to wait for him to post them before I can share them.
I do have a few pictures with adorable little Randal in them though. He seemed to have a good time looking at the flowers and walking around with his family and his cousins.
(Not sure what happened in this photo... he must have his hands behind his back because it looks like his arms have been cut off. LOL)As usual, I asked the kids to chose their favorite color of tulip to be photographed with. Tristan waited until the last minute and went with a field of red ones... but what he really liked was the random yellow and red streaked ones that were in this field. Not the red ones, the yellow ones.
Carissa said that she wanted pictures with all of her favorites. I gave in and told her that was fine. She ended up with pictures in 6 or 7 different varieties, mainly pinks (imagine that, LOL). Here's a few of my faves of her:
Chase chose the reds as his favorites. They actually had some subtle streaks of white in them. They were really fabulous tulips! It was a big, thick patch of tulips too and I was thrilled to be able to get a photo with nothin but red in it.
Jimmy and his family were saints to put up with me. I take my sweet time, dilly-dallying around, taking tons of pictures of the kids, stopping to look at the tulips, playing with my camera settings so I can take artistic shots, etc. I forget what it's like to have little ones who aren't interested in hanging out at the tulip fields for 2 hours just because. LOL But I did get some great flower shots while there. Here's my faves:
The funniest moment of the entire weekend happened here. The paths were wet in places from the rain that had fallen that morning. Randal was in his cute little blue boots and wasn't quite watching where he was going. He hydroplaned on the slick, wet mud and landed on his bottom in a thick muddy patch. He got up saying "aaaa... aaaa... aaaa... there's mud in my boot!" And there was. There was mud on his bottom, mud on his legs and he'd fallen so hard that mud had actually fallen inside his boot. We just sat there and laughed, it was so funny! Then Chase decided to help and picked Randal up, holding him backwards against his body, coating his own self with a layer of mud. *snort* Oh well, we still enjoyed the rest of the festival. :)
He also got photos with these beautiful purples ones. Purple is one of his recent favorite colors so I was glad to see him choose some purple ones to be photographed with.
Carissa said that she wanted pictures with all of her favorites. I gave in and told her that was fine. She ended up with pictures in 6 or 7 different varieties, mainly pinks (imagine that, LOL). Here's a few of my faves of her:Chase chose the reds as his favorites. They actually had some subtle streaks of white in them. They were really fabulous tulips! It was a big, thick patch of tulips too and I was thrilled to be able to get a photo with nothin but red in it. Jimmy and his family were saints to put up with me. I take my sweet time, dilly-dallying around, taking tons of pictures of the kids, stopping to look at the tulips, playing with my camera settings so I can take artistic shots, etc. I forget what it's like to have little ones who aren't interested in hanging out at the tulip fields for 2 hours just because. LOL But I did get some great flower shots while there. Here's my faves:
The funniest moment of the entire weekend happened here. The paths were wet in places from the rain that had fallen that morning. Randal was in his cute little blue boots and wasn't quite watching where he was going. He hydroplaned on the slick, wet mud and landed on his bottom in a thick muddy patch. He got up saying "aaaa... aaaa... aaaa... there's mud in my boot!" And there was. There was mud on his bottom, mud on his legs and he'd fallen so hard that mud had actually fallen inside his boot. We just sat there and laughed, it was so funny! Then Chase decided to help and picked Randal up, holding him backwards against his body, coating his own self with a layer of mud. *snort* Oh well, we still enjoyed the rest of the festival. :)
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