Ottawa Tulip Festival
I just spent the long weekend (that's Victoria Day for us in Canada) in Ottawa. It was rainy, wet and cold most of the weekend, but my aunt and I braved the weather to see the Tulip festival. For those of you from Pella--imagine more tulips, more people, not so crowded, and fewer Dutch costumes than Pella's Tulip Time. Also, the parade was a boat parade down the canal--no marching bands. Most exciting were the giant fibreglass tulips (or at least the grand tulip theft--according to my aunt and uncle, a local boat repairman managed to put the sawed-apart tulip back together again) and the international village, where I introduced my aunt to Poffertjes (served by a cute old man and his wife dressed up in Dutch costumes) at the Dutch pavilion and we watched this guy make money with his Double Dutch bicycle:
The double dutch bike--handles work the opposite that you'd expect. Note the gears where the handlebars meet the bike frame. $25 if you can ride 10 feet and you get four tries. I didn't see anyone (other than the guy above who presented the challenge) who could stay on for more than one push on the pedal.
Me in the garden of gigantic tulips.
My favourite fibreglass tulip.
posted by Steph @ 10:47 PM
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Either Molson Canadian or Labatt supports the Dutch pavilion and they won't let them serve Dutch beer. There have been negotiations in an attempt to change this, but they have so far been unsuccessful. Of course there is coffee--though I'm not sure if you'd call the tent a coffee house.
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