Celebrating my 50th post with goodies from the bakery in Pella!!
A small note about the place we visited on our trip -
Pella is a small town in Iowa with a touch of Dutch to it....the tulip gardens are so beautiful. It is different from the other cities I visited in the US. The annual Tulip Time Festival is a celebration of Pella's Dutch heritage held during the first weekend of May every year. This year the Tulip festival will be held for 3 days starting May 6, 2010. But we visited it yesterday May 1, 2010. I will sure go back next year to see the parade and the fair!
After taking a stroll at the Central Park (this is not the one in NY but Pella) and the Sunken Gardens ...all of us were hungry (hungry for pastries!!) and we had glanced at the bakery before entering the gardens and had decided to visit this one before leaving the town!
I read about this bakery on the internet and one of our friend also asked us to visit this place and buy Dutch letters - these are pastries in the form of letter "S". So after visiting the Tulip gardens we headed straight to this bakery.. Even though we were warned by our friend about the long waiting line in front of the shop.....we did not think that there will be a long waiting line since it was a normal day .... ....but we were surprised (I guess we should rather not be surprised after hearing the warning from our friend!) to see a long queue with a 20 minute wait atleast in front of the shop and we ask the people standing in the line about whether it is worth waiting in the line... and they say it is worth the wait to buy the pastries (they buy it all the time from that shop)...so we join the line too to taste the yummy pastries and one cannot miss the smell of the pastries as you stand in the line (even if you just go to check the place and not actually buy them....I am sure no one will return empty handed from the shop!)...sure to kindle your taste buds!! We got some walnut bars, apple pecan coffee cake and butter almond cookies!! I am enjoying these pastries as I am writing this post!
If you are planning to visit Pella .....enjoy the pastries as you take a stroll at the Park! I forgot to ask them about one thing....why the letter "S" and what is so special about the letter "S"?? If anyone reading the post knows about it.....enlighten me on it!!
(Photo of the pastries and the cookies that we purchased from the bakery)
Thanks for your patronage (to take it to 50th post!!).....keep visiting my blog!! Have a great week ahead!!
The "S" pastries are a tribute to people whose names start with "S"...:D
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