{"id":10066,"date":"2014-04-23T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=10066"},"modified":"2019-06-25T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:56:25","slug":"the-mount-vernon-tulip-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/the-mount-vernon-tulip-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mount Vernon Tulip Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took two trips to get back to the tulip festival (I first attended in 2011<\/a>); the first was on a Sunday and we sat in stop and go traffic for more than six hours, still never got within striking distance of the fields, and I was ready to blow a gasket. May everyone who cut in front of us during the four hours we sat in the exit lane’s toenails fall off, and may they also get an eyelash in their eye that they can’t get out, and that might help them feel a fraction of the annoyance I felt with them for deciding they were too good to wait in line like everyone else. The second attempt, on a Tuesday, was smooth sailing the entire way. If you want to go, check the bloom maps and avoid the weekend if at all possible to save yourself a lot of agony. The visit is worth the effort it takes to get there–the swaths of color splashed across the ground is invigorating to the eye and the creative spirit. It makes me want to rip down all of the brush behind my house and have my own mini tulip fields so I can experience a bit of this glory every day of the season!<\/p>\n

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