Tulipmania

I am happy to report that I made it out to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point this year. I need to take advantage of the benefits I get from being a TPI employee, one being I get into all the venues for free. The festival was amazing, they did a wonderful job at making the gardens look stunning. I loved seeing all the different kinds of tulips they had planted, I had no idea there were so many different types of tulips.

I also loved all the spring blossoms that were blooming on all the trees throughout the gardens. Spring blossoms are one of my favorite things in the whole world, I will never get enough of them.

This was also my first trip to the secret garden, the Thanksgiving Point Gardens has 11 themed gardens within their 55 acres of gorgeous garden, the secret garden is probably one of the most visited. When I first started working at Thanksgiving Point one of the security gaurds told me that most of the engagments that happen on property happen in the secret garden haha. It is a pretty magical place, I will need to go back in the summer when everything is in full bloom.

random picture but I thought it was kinda cool, this is why I love having my own blog, I can do what I want with it hahaha.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

A couple of weeks ago Nick went to a Bee's game with one of his buddys, they entered a pie eating contest and Nick totally won and got two tickets to the home run derby AND the all star game! Lucky me got one of the sets of tickets and they were seriously so so much fun! The home run derby was first and was my favorite, it was so much fun! I included a picture of the rules so that I wouldn't have to explain it haha.

The Jazz Bear came and would pitch basketballs to one of the batters and he would hit them into the crowd, I thought that was hilarious.

I just love the atmosphere at baseball games

It was raining when we got there but thankfully cleared up for the derby but it left behind the most spectacular clouds

My favorite part of the home run derby was the general admission section, that is the best place to be at a home run derby becuase you get to catch all of the home runs they hit. The section was packed and everyone had brough their gloves along to help catch all the home runs, we walked over to that part of the stadium for the final round and boy its an exciting place to be!

This high schooler from Spanish Fork was amazing. He made it to the final round and ended up taking second place but he sure had some power behind his swings. He technically hit the most home runs and ended the second round with 13 hits, unfortunately they start over in the final round so he hit one less in the final round then the winner, but I'm sure he got noticed by some important people.

Two days later we were back at Spring Mobile Park to see the All Star Game. At the front of the stadium they had the sweetest jazz band playing jazzed up versions of Lady Gaga songs, it was pretty awesome I am hoping to put a video of them up soon

The players doing the wave

Got this sweet necklace for free

Again, the clouds were breath taking

After the game they had a random magic show which was acutally really cool, I honestly have no idea how they did what they did. Then they had a fantastic firework show, the largest one they have ever done in that stadium. It was wonderful! It was awesome being so close to such huge fireworks! Both of these outtings were fabulous, I had such a fun time! Thanks Nick!!! I greatly enjoyed the rewards of your epic pie eating skills.