Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

One of the attractions up here in Washington that we were told that we had to go to was the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Mount Vernon, Washington. I am so glad that they told us, because it was the most beautiful things that I have ever seen. Tulips are my FAVORITE flower, and so I was in HEAVEN surrounded by every kind of tulip and miles and miles of them! Absolutely awesome!! It was about a 4 1/2 hour drive to Mount Vernon from our house, and so we left Saturday after lunch so that Riley would sleep in the car on the way up there. We had to go through 2 mountain passes to get there, and there was still a LOT of snow in the mountains! It was beautiful! We got to Mount Vernon about 5:00pm that evening, and checked into our room at the Best Western. We had dinner at a Steak & Chop restaurant there....and we were really disappointed...not like Texas!! Then we decided to call it a night so that we would be well rested for the next day.

We started our day off at the RoosenGarde Gardens. It was beautiful. They had garden after garden of over 100 different kinds of tulips, and it was gorgeous. I had no idea that there were that many tulips, and there were some really different ones! In front of each section of tulips there was a chalkboard on a stake that told you the name of each tulip!

There were all different sizes and shape so tulips as well. Some were really tall, as tall as Riley, some short, some with HUGE bulbs, and some with small bulbs. It was amazing!!!

This was an interesting one...it blooms like a rose!!

Riley wanted to 'walk' everywhere, and so we just let her go, and she would walk up to each flower and say 'ooooo'!!! She got so excited about all the flowers!!

Riley had to smell each and every tulip!! It was so funny!!! And let me tell you...she shoved her face down to the bottom of the flower to smell it...so she did get a good old whiff of them!! LOL!!

Then she thought that she should see what they tasted like....don't worry we didn't let her!!

After we looked at the garden's then we decided that we wanted to go to one of the MANY fields of the tulips and walk around. So went to one of the RoozenGarde fields, and it was so amazing!!! There were miles and miles of Tulips that you could walk through and take pictures!!

Riley was so excited about it...she loves walking through the tulips and then she would stop and smell a few of them periodically!!

This is Riley getting excited about being in the tulips!! LOL!! Then she wanted to play peek-a-boo, and so that was fun for a while!!!

This is a picture from the back of the field all the way to the front of the field where we took the first picture of me in the red tulips! It was HUGE!!!

Then we asked Riley to take a few pictures of Mommy and Daddy...didn't she do a great job...LOL!!!

I have always wanted a kissing picture in flowers...so no time like the present!!! My favorite man surrounded by my favorite flower...looked like a perfect time to me!!!

Then we went to our next stop which was another place called Tulip Town. It was about 4 blocks from the field we were at!

Tulip Town was a huge field that had every kind of tulip in it...it looked like a rainbow....it was beautiful!

They had these really HUGE kites that they were flying over the field of tulips!

This was my FAVORITE of all the tulips that we saw!! It was gorgeous!!!

This is when we asked Riley if she was ready to go bye bye, and she plainly said 'NO'!!!

This is Scott's favorite...of course it is Orange......his favorite color!!!

Doesn't that look like a post card! It does not even look real! It was AWESOME!!!

Then on our way out of town we took some pictures of some other fields that we saw! You could see them a mile away. They were so bright and colorful, you could not miss them!

Then we were on the road heading home! We left about 2:30p and got home about 8pm. When we got in the car Riley decided that she needed to get comfortable after the long day, and so she took her bows out of her hair, took her socks and shoes off, and then was ready to take a nap!!! We had such a great time, and so glad that we went! It was great! It was a little chili, but overall was GREAT weather for being outside all day!!!