Will anyone be going to the Skagit Tulip Festival this month?

It was my brother's birthday yesterday but he doesn't like it, he's concious that he's getting older. So I sent him an e-card without the words 'Happy Birthday' on it at all. However, I needed a reason to be sending the card - even though we both knew why I was - and did a search for Festivals on 1st April. I can't use the April Fool thing; we're both in our forties; I've done that one to death.





I found the Skagit Tulip Festival (60 miles from Vancouver in one direction and 60 miles from Seattle in another apparently) and used that in the poem I wrote to go on the card.





I was just wondering if anyone had actually been or planned on going.

Will anyone be going to the Skagit Tulip Festival this month?
I love the Skagit Valley and the Tulip Festival and yes, I've been even though I lived in Seattle at the time. The Northwest part of Washington State has numerous pockets of Dutch residents who are first and second generation Americans. My own mother was born and raised in Lynden, Washington, which is right near the border of Canada and Washington and is as Dutch as you can get. A tulip festival amongst the Dutch is like highland games for the American Scottish.





In my opinion, your card was very clever.





Happy belated Tulip Festival to your brother!
Reply:Yes, I'll be going. I live in Issaquah, Washington, just slightly east of Seattle. I'm a relative newcomer to Washington, and by the time I knew about the festival last year, it was over! I don't want to miss it this year, so I'm hoping to go within the next week or so. I'm including their web site, below.





In response to the first "answerer," who didn't answer a thing, the Skagit River Valley is most definitely "near" by our standards, and by my own. Sixty miles is only an hour or so away by interstate highway, and Seattle and Vancouver, BC, are excellent reference points for those not familiar with Washington state. Having grown up in Texas, I think the entire state of Washington is pretty small, as it could easily be tucked into the eastern half of Texas! No complaints, though - I love living in Washington.





A belated Happy Birthday to your brother!
Reply:I went to the tulip vestval several years ago. It is very beautiful. We spent the day going from farm to farm. Although it's mainly tulips, many farms have daffidols and irises as well.





The sights were wonderful, the weather nice, but my allergies were killing me by the time we made it to the 2nd or 3rd field!





Next year you can send him a card celebrating the Pierce County Daffidol Festival. My sister was her school's Daffidol princess.http://www.daffodilfestival.net/