Tulip Time

Saturday, May 14, 2016

After hearing so much about it, we were really looking forward to Tulip Time here in Holland. Downtown Holland had tulips planted everywhere and in rows along each side of the street. It was so pretty!

 

The days leading up to the tulip time parade there were two or three carnivals around town, including one in the dutch village, as well as farmers markets and craft fairs. We didn't have time to go to all of these, so this year we decided to go to the parade.

 

We had some friends here in the ward who lived on the road that the parade goes down. They invited us to come over and we were able to have a hot dog lunch and some pretty good seats saved for us.

While we were there Jared and Karl played with some other kids that the family had invited over. One of the boys was Jared's age and was named Jared too. Jared thought that was pretty awesome and had fun playing with the other Jared. The other Jared's dad was someone Ryan knew, was home teaching companions with, from when he lived in Holland for an internship before his mission. It was nice for them to catch up.

Before the parade, a police officer passed out Junior Police Officer badges. Emmaline and I got to be outside with the boys for a little while until Ryan got Emmaline to fall asleep and she and I went inside to stay warm and so she could sleep peacefully.

 

 

 It was a really long parade with several school bands, a lot of dutch looking people and floats, and even a local geriatric baseball team. There were a lot of elaborate and well put together floats; it was hard to pick a favorite, but I found one.

My favorite float; I loved this one!

 

 

 Karl liked this one from a high school robotics team who made a robot that shoots balls. We stayed from probably an hour to watch the parade, but we still left before it was quite finished, and it ended up being good timing, because it started to rain just as we were getting in our car. We had a good time and it was so fun to see the dutch heritage and all the beautiful tulips!!