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Monday, May 10, 2010

{ Tulip Time in Holland, MI }

Last week I spent a wonderful day in Holland, Michigan for their annual Tulip Time Festival with my mom, mother-in-law and grandma. We visited Windmill Island, home to the 248-year Dutch Windmill "De Zwaan" (meaning graceful bird) that was shipped from the Netherlands in 1964. We got the opportunity to take a tour of the windmill and learned that it is the only authentic working windmill in the United States. During the tour we got to see it actually working, and got to meet the miller, the first Dutch-certified miller in America and the only female master miller in the world. We spent the rest of the day walking around the town and shopping at the cute little stores, admiring all the beautiful flowers and we had dinner before heading back home. Here are a few of the photo highlights I thought I'd share, I'm absolutely in love with the dark purple Tulip "Queen of the Night", they were just amazing in person.

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8 comments:

  1. All the tulips are gorgeous!

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  2. This is so amazing! I'm so glad you were able to experience this as well! Such a fun spring tradition! :)

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  3. Being 100% Dutch...I'm jealous :)

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  4. These make me want to go back to Holland!! Beautiful. :)

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  5. Wow, beautiful! We were supposed to go this past weekend to Holland but I was stuck home with a cold. Next time I guess :)

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  6. Gorgeous... and I mean YOU!

    Ummm... how do you get your pics to collage like that? Sooo neat!!! Teach me, wise one ;)

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  7. Love these pictures! I went this year too but on the last weekend, so many of the tulips were missing because of the storms the had all week, glad you got there when it was still all blooming, beautiful pictures!

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