It was a beautiful day for tulips. We drove over to Pella around lunchtime and basked in the glory of sunshine, more tulips than you could count, delicious pastries (we waited in line for over half an hour for Dutch letters, but it was worth every minute), and the best part: a parade! with floats and everything. It has been awhile since I've been to a parade. I don't know what it is about marching bands and cute little kids waving that turns me into a kid again. I was hopping around and dancing and waving at everyone (some day I'll be in a parade, I don't know if I could contain myself) Seriously, seeing all the cute families marching in their wooden clogs, almost tempts me to live in Pella for a year so we could be in the parade. I really think every member of the town participated in the parade. It was over an hour!
Maybe this will be the year we'll go to the parade of all parades...the ROSE BOWL parade in Pasadena. Oh my
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Dutch letters, yes. But did you get any puff pillows? my favorite pastry in the world, I swear, and you can only get them in Pella (at least as far as I know at this point).
By the way, I recently hung out with some Dutch Navy sailors whose ship stopped on St. Thomas for a few days. I told them about the tulip festival and they couldn't believe this town stayed so Dutch it built its own mini-canals and windmills!
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