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Tulip Time Festival 2017: A Little Touch of Dutch

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About a month ago, our friend posted a link about Tulip Festival Around The World 2017 on her Facebook page which gave us the idea. Some people, including us, were not aware that such festivals existed. It excited us to know that we don't have to go to the Netherlands or Japan to see tulips, because we both enjoy flowers and though we tried planting tulips ourselves, we weren't so successful. We chose Holland, Michigan because it is closer to us. The Tulip Time Festival in Holland, Michigan was held on May 6th - May 14th, 2017. It has been held every year in mid-May since 1929 and is currently the largest tulip festival in the United States.  We started looking for information about the festival and found out that we could get the brochure for free by joining their official website mailing list. The brochure was really helpful because they gave information about parking spots, Tulip Lanes map, festival schedules, activities, and many more. We decided to go there in the

Frozen Niagara Tour, Mammoth Cave, KY

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With Elsa's passing, we were trying to distract our attention by visiting few places in Kentucky for a start. FYI, Elsa was our dog and she just passed two weeks before due to cancer.  Our first destination was  Mammoth Cave National Park . Joe wanted to visit it for a long time but never had the chance. Well, that day finally came. We booked the reservation for Frozen Niagara Tour a few days before the tour because Ayu casually looked up the website and found out that there were only 14 available seats left on that weekend, so we did it right away. Our tour schedule was on Sunday, April 23rd, 2017 at 09.00 AM. Though reservations are not required but are strongly recommended, you really don't wanna spend the time to go there just to find out that there's no seat left, right? They offer sign interpreter services for cave and surface activities to visitors free of charge if you give a notice two weeks prior your visit, which is really cool. The Frozen Niagara To