The second picture is essentially the entire park. It isn't huge but made me feel a bit at home as the Tulip festival in Holland is going to be happening in Michigan in not too long. Not anywhere close to as big as Hollands but little reminders of home are great when you live abroad. I'm tempted to go back on my own in the next couple of weeks if the flowers are still blooming.
Today we went as a school excursion, which I don't know why they bothered. I mean the kids couldn't have had much fun there. They packed everyone into 6 small busses...(note to self: get a picture of one) which are really large mini vans. The kids had to stand around while they solider lined them up and then litterally marched them to the flower area where they had them stand around until all 6 classes did group photos, and then had them stand around more for individual shots.
I tried asking questions and entertaining my 3 year olds but they weren't really paying attention. I mostly played rangler as they got bored standing around and tried wandering off. I had figured once pictures were out of the way the kids would be allowed to actually look at the flowers and wander a bit. My mistake. As soon as photos were done, they were lined back up, and marched right back onto the bus. From getting on the bus at school, to getting off at school again were were gone for just over an hour, and it took 10 minutes each way to get there. I didn't have fun, I have no idea how a group of 3~5 year olds took it. But being Japanese (even children) when asked if they had fun on the school excursion, they enthusiastcally replied YES! Go figure.
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