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Best places to enjoy Tulip Festival in USA

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Spring season indicates new beginning. It converts white snowy bed to colorful flower bed. After dry, cold winter, spring brings fresh bloom flowers, bird onomatopoeia, smell fresh herbs in your garden, which feels life to the earth again.  Spring season is very famous for blooming flowers which includes Cherry Blossom and Tulips. The Tulip is a plant from the lily family. Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. There are more than 100 varieties of Tulips. In USA Tulip and Dutch cultural heritage has celebrated since longtime. I have visited a few places and it blows my mind with stunning colors.   Skagit Valley, Mount Vernon, Washington Skagit Valley is one of the best place to see Tulips in all over USA. Its 33rd anniversary of Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. In Mount Vernon number of farms grow Tulips and you can buy tickets of any farm and head to the farm. They grow Tulips in countless colors. They also have Trolley ride, Kite flying, Kids zone and Souveni

Evening out with friends at TopGolf

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As spring has started, I love to explore new places. Chicago is a Windy City so you cannot expect all day will be warm spring day, but maybe some of. Last Saturday we all friends decided to play golf, although none of us is professional golf player. But still we wanted to play for fun. So we were searching for the miniature golf place around Milwaukee, than my husband suggested TOPGOLF. He had been there once. As I never heard about it, I had started surfing on the Internet to look details for TOPGOLF. The best thing of TOPGOLF is you don't need to be a professional golfer. Anyone can try their skills and learn how to play? isn't it amazing? I always wanted to play Golf but didn't  get a chance to learn, but this evening my wish came true.  We went to Wood dale, Chicago, but there are many locations all over the US. You can find the nearest one over here  Topgolf locations Finest thing is TOPGOLF opens till 2am on Friday and Saturday. All location

Cherry blossom festival in USA

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Cherry Blossom is Japanese festival. In Japanese term, cherry blossom known as "Sakura".  The flower of genus Prunus trees bloom in the spring season, which consider as Cherry Blossom.  These are White and Pink flowers. The Cherry Blossom is assumed to be a native of the Himalayas. It looks marvelous when the Cherry trees bloom at its peak. You must visit it once. National cherry blossom festival Washington DC In 1912 Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo had gifted 3000 Cherry trees to City of Washington DC. In 1927 School children had initiated planting the Cherry trees and also added some fun activities, Which called the first “festival” in 1927. There are many up-gradation in celebration over the year. Hence National Cherry Blossom festival has started as an annual celebration to honor the friendship between the United states and Japan. Address:- Japan Town  Event date & time:- March 20 - April 17, 2016 Admission fees:-  The event is free and open to the public Main a

Spring 2016 bucket list

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You must be thinking why I am creating these post so late, But guess what we had snow fall today in Wisconsin. So its difficult to identify spring in Midwest. Are you excited to enjoy spring? So am I? I am still waiting to have warm weather. Its 32 degrees in Fahrenheit today, Do you believe its spring? Spring Bucket list    Plant Vegetable Garden (these year I am planting mint, tomatoes and green chilies) Enjoy Cherry blossom Go for a nature walk Play in the rain Bake a spring treat Attend color run and play with color Day trip with friends Attend Tulip festival Take spring photos Have a Bonfire Shop at farmer's market Have a game night watch the sunrise fly a kite Blow bubbles Make sprouts at home Ride on train Go fishing Scavenger hunt Pick fresh berries Which one is your favorite ?