Jalan-jalan tengok Tulip - part 1

Place: Kasumigaura Park, not far from Tsuchiura, Ibaraki
Date: 19 April 2008

Went there before we went to JAXA Tsukuba Special Open Day, driven by Fendi who fetched us from Tsukuba eki. Radzian & Rini's family in another car followed Fendi's lead. Faizly joined us too, having spending the night before the visit to help with making some bento (two varieties of sandwiches - tuna & egg, as well as roasted chicken wings and drumsticks). Liya brought yummilicious carrot cake (yay!) and meehoon kicap which Huzaifah simply could not get enough of. Serious, I've never seen him gobbling up anything like that ever before. (Note to self : Hmm, maybe should give Liya's recipe a try after this...)

Plus factor:

• Next to Kasumigaura lake, the second largest lake in Japan.
• Features a windmill and the tulips were color/type coordinated, giving it a Holland-like feel (Upon seeing our photos, Mak made a passing comment on how Japanese sometimes seems to have nothing better to do than to imitate others)
  
• Features a watermill (which was not functioning when we were there, but still...)

Minuses:

• Quite difficult to reach by public transport
• The tulips area is actually not that big (photos could be deceiving)

Although initially I was quite upset to see some of the tulips already in ' lunyai' condition, since we had traveled all the way from Tokyo, hubby and I just went on "happy-snapper" mode. We tried making the most out of the best we had there - and alhamdulillah the pictures turned out quite well....

And if it was not enough, the following tulip-seeing trip was really great, subhanallah...

Further reading/photos:
Liya & Fendi
Faizly