So back in April (the 26th, to be exact), my Grandma, Aunt Marianne, myself and my girls went out to Thanksgiving Point to see the tulip festival. We picked a perfect day, where the weather was nice, but not too hot, and the bloom rate (or something like that) was around 70% (meaning about 70% of the flowers were blooming at that point). It was beautiful! I feel like I should apologize in advance--I didn't take many pictures of the flowers. They were so pretty, but I know that I don't love looking at pictures of flowers--I prefer pictures of the people I love, so here they (mostly) are.
What I saw a lot of (and loved):
and this:
They have a big koi fish pond, which the girls loved. Great-grandma Wilde spent a couple quarters on some fish food, and the girls had a blast tossing it in to the monstrously large fish:
The girls also loved the fountain in the Secret Garden (made to resemble the book, which I loved). Janey in particular liked to play with the fountain's spray, and since it was mostly hitting herself, we let her... :) :
The girls were also just being so funny--they love taking large amounts of pictures and making as many faces as they can...:
This is really hard to see, but there was an owl with her babies by the waterfalls:
And last, but definitely not least, while we were there we saw this snake:
which decided to not just slither under our stroller for shade and protection, but to actually climb (slither?) INTO the basket of our stroller! I freaked out, and couldn't do anything, but my grandma grabbed that snake by the tail and whipped it right out of the stroller. I was way impressed... and a little freaked out. I mean, it was a harmless garden snake, but still--in my stroller with Janey and Cailin? I don't think so! And just to give a little perspective, those pavers are at least 4 inches across--that was a monster of a garden snake!
Ew. Snakes make me shudder. I don't know how anyone can touch one and not end up fainting!
ReplyDeleteGrandma Wilde just told me that story on Saturday. I think it was a pretty awesome story. I don't know that I would be able to touch it either. But maybe if I really needed to I would do it... you never know until it happens to you. :D
ReplyDeleteYeah, I should clarify a bit--I was too panicked in the moment to get it out, but if Grandma hadn't yanked it out, I would've... just not as quickly as she did. :)
ReplyDeleteYour grandma is amazing. That would freak me out!
ReplyDeleteAm I remembering wrong, or did you tell me Gramma threw it clear to Utah Lake?
ReplyDeleteI wish we could all be brave like your Grandma! Seemed like a fun day!
ReplyDeleteOne other thing about that snake--uh, you got a picture of it?
ReplyDeleteOkay, I remember now, it slithered closer and closer until it got in the stroller and gramma saved everybody.
Well, everybody but the snake. The amazing newly discovered whirling boomerangish flying snake.