Tip Toe Through the Tulips

Never underestimate the fun and adventure you can have on a simple day trip. We wanted to go to the Tulip Festival in Burlington and decided to just go for the day. The weather was going to be cold and wet but, we decided to venture out anyway. After a quick stop for some yummy doughnuts and a long drive, we made it.
The flowers where in full bloom and so pretty.

 It was wet and muddy but we just loved seeing all the flowers. The kids each picked their favorite and had to have a picture by them. 

We even managed a great family picture among the flowers.

 

Some of the flowers were so tall they were as big as Sarah!

All the rain had created huge mud puddles and the kids had fun puddle stompin'.

We had fun seeing the Tulips and we were glad we took the trip up. We hope to do this more often.

On the way home we decided to hit some Seattle spots that we hadn't seen before. First stop was the Fremont Troll. The kids sang the Grumpy Old Troll song the entire time we were there.

and they had to pick the trolls nose

When we finished at the troll we realized Gas Works Park was not far away so we drove down to walk around and play. We had a nice stroll to the top of the hill where the compass is and the
view of Seattle was amazing!

But then it happened! 

A huge hail storm came in and we got caught in the middle of it!

RUNNNNN!

Dan had to protect Sarah and carry her to the covered area.

We couldn't believe it, yet again another storm on our day out. Things like this always happen but we were safe in the covered area and had fun watching the storm. The kids hadn't ever been stuck in a hail storm like this before and couldn't believe how much it hailed.

When the storm finally passed it looked like it had snowed.

Our trip to tip toe through the tulips was a fun one, cold and wet, but fun all together.