++ i went to the tulip festival today 60 minutes north in mount vernon. i've never seen so many cars in one place just to see flowers. its not like you can see them growing. they don't dance for you. all you do is drive (or sit and idle your car slowly at 0.3mph) to one of the fourteen tulip and daffodil farms, park, get out of you car, and walk to see a field full of tulips. some are white, some are purple, some are pink, and most of them are red. you take a few pictures, then you hop back in your car and drive to the next farm and repeat. this will continue until you realize they all look the same and realize you have just wasted half your day looking at the same stuff which you saw in the first 5 minutes upon getting out of your car at the first farm.

highlights of the tulip farms: seeing the lone renegade yellow tulip invade the sea of red tulips. hearing every language in the world besides english. (seriously, who would come to see tulips besides tourists. its not like they don't bloom every year.) eating a $4 "bloomin' onion" and buying a 16 once 'fresh-squeezed' lemonade for $4 at the fair part of the festival. (talk about an expensive meal. and we only got to sit on picnic tables. and they didn't give us napkins. $4 for an onion deep-fried with flour, water, and bread crumbs. and $4 for water, sugar, and lemon juice.)

i must admit though, the daffodils and tulips were pretty. who would have ever thought i would have spent an entire day and driving an hour to go see flowers.

for all you who like to go peeping (not to be confused with peeing).

and if you want a free zours sample. ++