Always happy to see family, we took advantage of a few days off and drove over (in car only) to see daughter Mary and her family in Las Vegas. We stayed in rental cabin at Thousand Trails which was much more cost effective than driving rig over... wonderful to see them as always. Jason had never been there before so we walked our legs off visiting the various "shows" and hotels. The grandkids loved it and we loved seeing them. This is picture from Sam's Town where they have a waterfall show in afternoon.
Took one of the nice days we had and made the long journey up to La Conner for the tulips! I remember the days of coming over the hill and seeing tulips everywhere - not so any more. Think those days are gone forever, however there are still a lot of flowers! Nothing quite like walking these lovely fields of tulips as far as you can see! Farmers have gone in more for food and so not a lot of farms anymore growing flowers but enough I guess. I think they mostly all belong to one family but there is at least one other family still farming the gorgeous bulbs! Had a picture perfect day and loved every minute of it. They don't last long and we missed them last year when we stopped in Holland, Michigan and they had had a warm spring and tulips and come and gone by the time we arrived in late April! 
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