Trip Day Two

Today was the first day at the Lavender Festival in Sequim. It is always special to go because I had a lavender themed wedding (inspired by going to the festival the year before my wedding) and it always reminds me of our special day...and it is always the weekend of our anniversary! We decided we wanted to make it to all the farms on tour this year (although the Angel Farm wasn't listed on our map so we didn't go there). So we first stopped at the Sunshine Herb & Lavender Farm. Note: If you are coming from Highway 101, get past this farm BEFORE it opens in the morning or you will sit in traffic caused by people going to the farm. Lesson learned, although next year we hope to stay in Sequim the whole time. Anyways...this farm is known for its Lavender Ice Cream (one of the fun things about the festival is trying the many different lavender food and drinks)...but the line was way too long for us!! They had old cars on display and tractors which the girls likes and then some neat vendors. I found some neat kitchen scrubbies again this year so bought a few of those. They also had a beautiful children's playhouse that they are giving away in September.....so we bought a ticket (keep our fingers crossed!) and the girls had a blast playing in it. We took pictures so maybe we can have one like it someday. It had a dutch door, a loft, a drop down school desk etc. So neat! We sampled some fudge, browsed the gift store and headed to the next farm. Angel is not sure about all the bees in the lavender plants yet!!

The next farm we stopped at is one of our favorites, Purple Haze Lavender Farm. This farm has a beautiful landscape and so many lavender areas and a beautiful orchard with vendors set up under the trees. They also have a HUGE live music tent and food vendors....which is ALWAYS packed and smells so good!! It was very windy and the aroma of the lavender was all around us!! Also deceiving to notice how much sun we were getting! We had lots of fun walking through the lavender gardens....Angel loved the fact that they were taller than her!! Then we got some DELICIOUS White Chocolate Lavender Ice Cream and Lavender Lemonade. They had so many beautiful products from the vendors....if only we had money to spend!! Then we decided to do the U-Pick Lavender which Angel loved last year. Once again, we got our basket and she went to town choosing just the right Lavender stems to cut...we ended up with a beautiful bundle and she can't wait to bring them to Mamasan's grave. Emma helped a bit too!! Love this farm!

Our next stop was the Port Williams Lavender Farm. This farm is amazing with its huge open land with thousands of lavender plants!!! So beautiful and expansive. We mostly enjoyed walking around the gift shops and all the beautiful landscaping at this farm. They had live music as well and Angel did some dancing!! We were starving and since the vendors food was so pricey we decided to head into town to find a bite to eat.

We had dinner at a fun place on the main part of Sequim, called Pacific Islander or something....had some delicious pizza and ate it fast to get to the 5:00 mass across the street at St. Joseph's. After church we got stuck in some major traffic due to accidents again on 101...then we went to Nifty Fifty's little diner in Port Townsend for some delicious ice cream. Angel fell in love with the jukebox and was making everyone in the diner laugh with her dance moves! Then it was to the hotel and to bed!!!