Lavender Festival

Fulfilled another dream yesterday and attended The Lavender Festival yesterday! As some of you may know, or may have guessed, I LOVE all things Lavender and have been wanting to make it to this festival since I found out about it a couple of years ago. I had planned on going last year, but between wedding planning and other obstacles, I was unable to go. Turns out, it worked out better for my "see-through"complexion since last year the temperature was in the 100's and this year, it was a breezy and absolutely wonderful 72 degrees! WAY more my style!

So, off we went! As soon as you walk up, you are immersed in the wonderful scent of lavender as you walk past the first of two Lavender fields. I was in heaven!

                            

 Just past the first field was a second field that had several different varieties of Lavender marked with little signs with some details on each plant.

 After walking through these fields, and exploring a bit, while taking deep breaths and inhaling all of the relaxing goodness, we carried on into the festival set up. First things first, the Lavender bar! Yes, this is exactly what is sounds like. A bar filled with all kinds of Lavender yumminess from Lavender champagne, Lavender beer, margaritas and mojitos. They also had non-alcoholic options like Lavender green tea, lemonade and Lavender Lattes! I have a special place for Lavender-mint combinations in my heart, so I started out with a Lavender Mojito!

Every drink had lovely sprigs of fresh Lavender in them! So YUM!!

With our refreshments in hand, we wandered on to the displays of Lavender products, all made with Lavender right from their farms! Oh my goodness! They had everything from arrangements of fresh cut Lavender,massage oil, lip balm ,teas and cooking oils. We window shopped to our hearts content! Can I just tell you how AMAZING this place smells!!

After walking all over, sampling, smelling and trying to stop myself from simply buying one of EVERYTHING, it was time to fill our empty tummies with, you guessed it, Lavender food!!!
First stop was the Sandwich shack! I grabbed myself the chicken sandwich which had a Lavender honey mustard sauce, and then back to the bar for a Lavender green tea! YUM!!

 I mean LOOK at this green tea! I could drink this forever!

We enjoyed sitting in the shade, sipping our beverages and enjoying the live music and Lavender wafting through the air! Talk about a relaxing afternoon! But alas, no day of Lavender indulgence is complete without dessert!! So, we headed off to the dessert cafe,

 How on earth do you choose?? I wanted to try EVERYTHING! However, in an effort to keep myself, mostly, on track I chose a scoop of the Lavender-Honey ice cream.....and a Lemon Lavender bar to go!

 This ice cream was to die for! We took our tasty treats over to the shaded area where they had tables and chairs around the live music stage and drank it all in...or ate it all in rather.

After we ate every last decadent, melted drop of our icy treats, we headed back to the shopping area to make our purchases. It was certainly a tough choice but I settled on Lavender bath salts (the LAST bottle they had btw-woohoo) and.....a Lavender cookbook!!! How cool is that?

I mean LOOK at these bath salts!! I could just explode with admiration! Look how gorgeous this is?!

I am completely excited over the cookbook as well! SO many recipes and I cannot wait to get started trying some out. The recipe for Lavender sugar should come in quite handy with my baking, and I am so excited to try out the Lavender syrup for making my very own Lavender mojitos! This should be a great investment for me.

After throroughly enjoying everything the festival had to offer, we treked back to our car, making one last stop in the jaw droppingly gorgeous Lavender fields for a few more pictures.

The Lavender Festival runs for one more weekend! Be sure to check it out! I promise a wonderful day of relaxing fun and flavor! Check it out this weekend June 17th-19th from 10am to 6pm. If you need a getaway thats not too far from home, check this out!