Tulip Festival
 

My wife talked me into attending the Orange City, Iowa Tulip Festival a couple of weeks ago. Photos included:

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Wooden shoes are big down there:
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I was told their local high school band marched in the Rose Bowl parade. When they do that they wear out a complete set of wooden shoes down to their socks!
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No Corvettes in the parade but lots of old tractors.
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Wooden shoe dancers in the street.
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Even the little ones get involved.
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Before the parade the men and boys wash the streets. Water gets splashed on more than just the streets. All involved get wet even a few spectators.
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Naturally the women and girls get the job of sweeping the street.
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Lots of pretty girls dressed in period costumes like these tulip queens. The spectators are the ones who reveal a lot more.
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Naturally there are many varieties of tulips on display and for sale.
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Tulips lined many of the streets in the town.
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City park had large areas of tulips.
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I didn't take my Corvette because we were camping in the city park campground for several days as this is a three day event with plenty of Dutch food and two parades every day. I remove the rear seat and install a 3/4 size mattress in the back converting my Blazer into my mini-motorhome. In the evening we attended the production of Fiddler on the Roof. One of the most professional productions I have ever seen amateurs put on, but they have a lot of local talent with Northwestern College in town.
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A Tulip Festival!!! How drunk did the wife get you???:rofl:
At least you may have a possible thread save, if, and only if, that cooler on the back of your truck is a least full of beer:D

Why do you think I go to these things? It is the ethnic food and the beer! That is another reason I stay at the city park campground. That way I can drink as much as I want and still attend everything without any worries of a DUI. Still have to be concerned about PI (public intoxication) but usually by that time I am safely ensconced in my mini-motor home!
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I was worried about you going to a tulip festival. Thought maybe your wrist was getting a little limp..:sissy: and your MAN card would have to be pulled . Sweets is right, the cooler full of beer saved your reputation, but just barely.....:rofl:...WW

Well in that case you should have labelled the thread "Dutch Food & Beer Festival" :lol:
Speaking of the Dutch and since it's Memorial Day in the U.S., My late father had befriended a Dutch family when he and the Canadian Army helped liberate Holland during WWII. They had stayed in touch for over 60 years until both of their deaths a few years back. He once received Tulip Bulbs from them a way back in the early 60's and I can still remember to this day, my dad planting them in front of his house and telling me the story.(One of his few stories he would ever tell about the war) Remarkably they are still there to this very day, whether they are the original ones or not, I have no idea.
Just another small story about the "Greatest Generation":cert:

:seasix: Great story Sweets...:seasix:..WW


I use to bang a cute little Dutch girl by the name of "Heidi Koning", thats the best Dutch story I can come up with..:D...WW

The closest I can come to that is a little Norwegian girl & still doing it as I married her!:dance:

You guys are letting me down... I see tulips and thinking one of you made the comparison. Which is better, roses on a piano or tulips on an organ?
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Would that be an electric organ or a pump organ?
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You went to ND to find her, right.
Maybe she was one of these two????:D

Ask your wife? :rofl:

OUCH!! :rofl:
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I did and she replied "both, because you're like the Energizer Bunny and just keep going and going and going........"
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You betcha! She looks more like the blonde but sounds and acts more like the deputy. Yah!
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I was raised in a Dutch family, there is no good Dutch food. All made of blood, tongue and salt with the occasional pickled fish. :puke:

My father's family was in the port of Rotterdam in Holland when he was 16 at the end of the war. They were liberated by the Canadians.:Sweet90:

Are you two half brothers? :lol:

I did the Dutch Oven once. Wife kicked me in the rib cage.

Burned your tongue? :rofl:

We sampled their Pigs-in-the-blanket and numerous Dutch letters, almond patties and other almond filled bakery products, not to mention the platter of poffertjes, mini pancakes served with white rum butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar found at the Little White Store. Apparently these Dutch had a whole lot more interesting food than your Dutch!
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