Fun and fascinating tulip festival facts you won't want to miss
#10 - Four-and-a-half million tulips in 3,000 varieties will bloom making it difficult to pick a favorite.
#9 - The Thursday Kinder Kids parade... the incredible, huggable pooches will out number the kids... but the kids are still happy, too.
#8 - For Dutch dancing, in full authentic costumes, including wearing heavy and cumbersome wooden shoes, it takes more than five pairs of wool socks to find comfort.
#7 - The Dutch dancers "klomp" to the accordion folk music for 12 minuets, 43 seconds.
#6 - In one Dutch dance, the gals burn 400 calories.
#5 - Since they've been practicing the Dutch dance since February... they can eat all the pigs-in-a-blanket they want.
#4 - "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" is the theme song for the Holland High School marching band.
#3 - If you miss the Tulip medley, you'll get another chance... the tune is played sometimes more than 30 times during the two-mile parade route.
#2 - There's more than six miles of tulips throughout the boulevards along Downtown Holland's Historic District to cruise.
#1 - The 2022 Tulip Time Festival Poster winner is me!
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It's my second time to have the honor of being the selected artist to represent the largest U.S. tulip festival. I feel blessed.