The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival runs all of April, so we decided to make that the main event for our first wedding anniversary. We arrived around 1:00 and looked at several tulip fields for the next three hours. From the road you could see just fields and fields of solid colors, it was pretty cool. You could see mountains in the distance too and small houses and barns dotted the landscape. Some of my co-workers had gone to the Festival earlier in April and complained that most of the tulips had not bloomed yet. The entire Northwest region has had a colder spring than normal this year, about 10 degrees below average. I was a little afraid that the tulips wouldn't have bloomed yet, but thankfully most of the tulips had bloomed. It rained/sleeted a few times Saturday afternoon and the fields were very muddy from the rain they had gotten recently. In fact, our pants legs had mud on them. But it gave me a chance to use the umbrella my sister had sent to me. It was pretty cold, but at least it wasn't nearly as crowded as it usually is. The tulips were very pretty, as you can tell from the pictures. We ended up buying a bunch of purple tulips (10 in a bunch) for $4.50.

After we spent several hours taking pictures and video of the tulips, we took the scenic drive we mentioned in the previous post and then ate a nice steak dinner at a local place in Burlington, WA called Max Dale's. After that we went back to the B&B for the night.

Here are a lot of pictures, video will come soon.