It was not best of the weekends for us this time. Me, being sick and K busy with his work left us with no time to do anything creative. Just watched couple of movies, Road to Perdition, The conspiracy theory and Se7en.
Last Weekend(11th May): I was in two minds whether to go to Holland, MI or Albany,NY for the Tulip festival. Since Michigan is too far , we decided to go to the Albany Tulip Festival (ATF) which is a 3 hrs drive from our place. Started at 8:30 in the morning and went straight to Hindu temple of Albany, saw the tmpl, had lunch and headed to the festival. Temple?? Yes indeed!! Well, I have developed a habit of planning a visit to the local temple wherever we are visiting. Call me religious but I like to see how the tmpl is designed/maintained. Cant remember a single place where I have missed such an opportunity.
Back to the trip, after a little bit of looking around, we found a parking spot very close to the park. Walked all over the park, posed for some nice pics...The tulips were in full bloom and were very pretty / colorful..We were done seeing everything within 2 hrs and had loads of time in hand, so decided to venture into the city to do some sightseeing. The capitol building was architecturally designed and looked like some European style mansion.
On the way back, there was lots of traffic so K stopped at an open mall to take rest, read "rest = shopping" for me . Got lucky and found a pair of sketcher mules on store closing-clearance for $15. Been looking around for those from a long time. Simply Love 'em.
Were very tired by the time we reached home. Had dinner and went straight to bed.
Gist: Somehow I had too many expectations, was comparing it to Seattle's Tulip festival(STF), not that I have visited, but from the pictures, seattle's TF looks very very pretty with long colourful fields (reminds me of Amitabh-Rekha's Silsila movie)...I had read so much about ATF, how good it is and stuff like that. Was quite disappointed and felt that it was a hype about nothing. Good thing is one more city added to my list of "visited" places.
Overall an okay turned good trip solely cos of the mules..
Last Weekend(11th May): I was in two minds whether to go to Holland, MI or Albany,NY for the Tulip festival. Since Michigan is too far , we decided to go to the Albany Tulip Festival (ATF) which is a 3 hrs drive from our place. Started at 8:30 in the morning and went straight to Hindu temple of Albany, saw the tmpl, had lunch and headed to the festival. Temple?? Yes indeed!! Well, I have developed a habit of planning a visit to the local temple wherever we are visiting. Call me religious but I like to see how the tmpl is designed/maintained. Cant remember a single place where I have missed such an opportunity.
Back to the trip, after a little bit of looking around, we found a parking spot very close to the park. Walked all over the park, posed for some nice pics...The tulips were in full bloom and were very pretty / colorful..We were done seeing everything within 2 hrs and had loads of time in hand, so decided to venture into the city to do some sightseeing. The capitol building was architecturally designed and looked like some European style mansion.
On the way back, there was lots of traffic so K stopped at an open mall to take rest, read "rest = shopping" for me . Got lucky and found a pair of sketcher mules on store closing-clearance for $15. Been looking around for those from a long time. Simply Love 'em.
Were very tired by the time we reached home. Had dinner and went straight to bed.
Gist: Somehow I had too many expectations, was comparing it to Seattle's Tulip festival(STF), not that I have visited, but from the pictures, seattle's TF looks very very pretty with long colourful fields (reminds me of Amitabh-Rekha's Silsila movie)...I had read so much about ATF, how good it is and stuff like that. Was quite disappointed and felt that it was a hype about nothing. Good thing is one more city added to my list of "visited" places.
Overall an okay turned good trip solely cos of the mules..
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