Seattle Still

Tuesday, 4-21-10

The sky is once again overcast and drizzly.  Gray skies, no “Dutchmen’s Britches” (patches of blue sky)).  The five of us (yes, including Rex) pile into their “Bark Busters” SUV and head north to the tulip fields.  We drive quite a while along Highway 5 until finally taking a turn off down a country road.  For miles all we see are empty, brown dirt farm fields – no tulips.  When we do see tulip fields they are past their prime – all the blooms have been cut off and all we see are patches of color from blooms that have fallen on the ground.  We have obviously missed the height of the tulip season.

We stop at “Rozen Gaarde”, one of the major tulip growers in the area, and pay $4 each (thank you Sarah) to walk through their tulip gardens.  There is a vast variety of shapes, color, and sizes.  Some of them are truly spectacular.  We take lots of photos.  Fred gets some great ones, mine are so-so.

We head back for Seattle and stop at the little town of LA Conner, named after Louise A. Conner, a woman who evidently contributed a lot of money to the town.  We have lunch at the Waterfront Café on the Sammamish River.

It’s raining all the way home as Fred and I doze in the back seat.

In the evening we watch American Idol and all agree Crystal Bowersox should win.  Then we accidentally catch an episode of “Glee” and their tribute to Madonna.  We are surprised because it is actually really good.

Lights out around 10:30.