Tesselaar Tulip Festival 2008

Last Sunday, we went to Silvan to see the Tesselaar Tulip Festival

Although I've been told its better at Canberra, this place is much nearer, and it was still great for us since we've never been in a field full of tulips before...


this blog is gonna be quite crowded with pictures, so I'll try to write less =) but we did have quite a lot of photographers that day... all of us took turns at taking pictures!


this picture was taken by Ryan:


And this one was taken by Noel:


here's our tour guide - his name is Nick, he's 11 years old and he's a really cool tour guide!


we went gnome hunting together, so the kids could win a candy prize =)


some things were toooo attractive, we just HAD to take pictures, even if it wasn't tulips...


and this is by far the best decorated tree I've ever seen:


we also took a bite .... here's the tiny pancakes with butter, maple syrup and icing sugar (sorry, we ate the croquettes before we remembered to take pics of it... but it was really yummy... good recommedation from our tour guide!)


then there was a really huge gust of wind that blew the plate away... yes, it can get super windy... and although the pancakes were heavy enough to fall on the table/other plate, the empty plate went flying in the wind, sprinking some icing sugar on Noel on the way... not sure if u'll need to zoom in to the pic to see it though =)


we also took a ride in the horse carriage... it didn't go far, but the kids seemed to love it anyway!


and Noel thanked the horse for the ride! quite literally actually. he went to stroke the horse and said 'thank you for the ride!'


both of them love flowers, apparently. Noel likes touching them...


and Ryan's trying to blend it =)


anyway, the tulips were gorgeous. i LOVE tulips!


they even had miniature windmills...


and I don't know what this tree is called, but its pretty...


aside from tulips there were also a lot of daffodils...


and Ryan and Noel chose a tulip pot each to bring back. They were 2 for $10. Ryan took a bright red one and Noel took a yellow one.


ok, that's most of it. I'm sleepy. gonna sleep now =)