Lavender Festival Trip

I visited HEAVEN Friday, in the form of the most beautiful purple, white and pink scented flowers! Friday Nancy and I along with 48 of our customers and friends travelled to Sequim-Dungeness Valley and enjoyed the 11th Annual Lavender Festival. http://www.lavenderfestival.com/

What a fabulous day, we met at Kent Station and boarded a Starline Motorcoach with our Tour Director Matthew and our driver Dominique, a couple of great guys who made our adventure that much more enjoyable, huge thanks to them both! We headed off to Edmonds and caught the Kingston ferry run, travelling through historic Port Gamble, crossing the Hood Canal bridge and off to Sequim. We arrived at our first stop the Cedarbrook Lavender & Herb Farm which features the historic Bell House gift shop and wonderful grounds with little nooks for you to sit and knit and take in the wonderful sights and smells. http://www.cedarbrooklavender.com/

Our next stop was Purple Haze Lavender Farm, another beautiful farm with beautiful gardens, home and gift shop. Here we enjoyed all that in addition to wonderful music and craft/art vendors throughout the grounds. Shopping was at a fever pitch! If the name of this farm is familiar we sell their wonderful sachets in our shop and they were the farm that helped us with our Anniversary Sachets and our thank you gift to our fellow lavender travellers. A special thank you to Vicki! http://www.purplehazelavender.com/

We then visited Jardin du Soleil. One of the most visually appealing farms, the wonderful gift shop sits up on a slight hill and when you look over the hill you see these fabulous mounds of lavender! They too had wonderful music, a french bistro area with food and vendors with wonderful handcrafted items. Unfortunately we didn't have much time here but I would love to visit this farm again! http://www.jardindusoleil.com/

By this time we were all getting hungry so off we went to the 3 crabs restaurant and had a nice lunch. With this opportunity to refuel we were ready to head to our final farm http://www.olympiclavender.com/ They too had music and we found a spinner at this farm.

From there we headed to our final destination on our tour the Lavender Festival Street Fair in downtown Sequim. Here we found the usual street fair booths and foods, unfortunately downtown Sequim lost power which prevented us from getting our Lavender infused espresso drinks!

From there we headed home and our return trip was just as enjoyable as our destination trip. We look forward to taking this trip again next year. Thank you to all of the wonderful women who joined us along with Pete, Al, Matt and Dominique!