The tulips were so beautiful last year when we went to see them for our anniversary that I wanted to go back again this year. So, Saturday morning we left early (around 8:45) to go see them. It was actually raining fairly heavily when we got there after driving for a little over an hour, so we decided to eat breakfast first in the nearby town of La Conner. We ate at the Calico Cupboard Cafe again and the food was excellent. I got some hot apple cider (which I've realized I love to drink), which was really good, and a ham and cheese omelet with fruit and toast. Troy got the breakfast sampler which is just one large pancake, eggs, and bacon. We also got one of their "famous" huge cinnamon rolls to take home.

After breakfast, the sun came out and the weather was much nicer. So we went to a few tulip fields and took several pictures. I wanted to see the orange tulips again, but we never found any. We bought a bunch of 10 pink tulips for $4.50, which is a real bargain compared to the cost at Pike Place Market of $10 for 12 tulips. These are much fresher too.

After looking at tulips for a couple of hours, we drove through Anacortes just to see what was there, which wasn't much. Then we drove to Deception Pass and stopped to hike around there for a while. We got lost on the trail we were on since it wasn't marked that well, but eventually found our way back to the car.

Then we drove south on Whidbey Island, and stopped at Coupeville for dinner at a small bar and grill, which wasn't nearly as impressive as breakfast was. The next stop was Fort Casey State Park, which is a place my dad mentioned he'd be interested in going. We saw some wildlife there, including rabbits and deer. Otherwise there wasn't much there, but it did have an impressive view of Puget Sound and a neat lighthouse. Unfortunately the lighthouse was in the process of being repaired, so it didn't look that great. As a side note, I'd be interested in visiting and photographing all 25 lighthouses in Washington state someday.

After Fort Casey, we drove the rest of the way to Clinton, a small town on the eastern edge of Whidbey Island, to take the ferry to Mukilteo. It was pretty cool and a little weird driving the car onto the ferry. It was only about a 20 minute ferry ride, so it didn't take long to get to Mukilteo. As we were pulling into the dock, we could see the Mukilteo lighthouse, which looked really pretty with the sunlight hitting it.

We made it home around 8:30, where we ate our cinnamon roll, which measured about 5" cubed. It was really good. We had a really nice Saturday and can't wait to go back to the Calico Cupboard to get another cinnamon roll!