Tulip festival

 

Instead of our usual playdate/friends social outing I opted for some one on one special time with Kobe & decided the tulip festival would be a perfect outing on a spectacular sunny day. We originally planned to go to the Yates springtime tulip festival last Sunday with a friend but arrived shortly before lunch & was stuck in the peak hour traffic for over half hour that we decided to turn around & come back another day. This weekend marks the last days of the festival so I recommend you come early (opening time) to be guaranteed a car park & entry. The park is breathtakingly gorgeous & located in the Roleystone hills surrounded by trees.

 

 

 

The tulip displays are set up in the middle of the park, accompanied by a waterfall feature & some stalls behind it. As your not allowed to stampede thru the tulips (obviously, thou some people still did to get a winning photo) there was one spot where there was logs situated between 2 tulip beds perfect for photo ops. The only downer was it was so busy, you need to be quick & trying to rush a super shy child to smile at the camera when he was overwhelmed by strangers standing nearby was tricky. I had to made do with my promise if he sat still so I could take a photo I would let him check the feral bins nearby (its his embarassing thing he loves to do & Im pretty sure he aint giving it up anytime soon).

 

 

We stopped by the apple stall & dutch food stall to top up on picnic food. The sweet apple juice was freshly squeezed from granny smith apples & I was shocked but happy to learn that they had no added sugar in them. After a lingering lazy picnic by the front pond area, we left our picnic stuff unattended & boarded the mini train. For the cost of a couple of gold coins it takes you on a brief trip around the park which is so handy when you have sore legs & just don't have the strength to carry a tired toddler uphill to explore the rest of the park. While I marvelled at the range of flowers in bloom that I spied from my seat on the mini train, the lil one squealed with delight on seeing any park bins. Win win.

If flowers & relaxing surrounded by nature is your thing then don't miss this. Go see explore.

 

 

Happy Friday friends!

Grace