The Carlsbad Flower Fields

It was a little hard trying to come up with things to do while my mother in law was in town considering I had to work the majority of the time she was here, which is actually the whole reason she was here to begin with, but we managed to get out to the flower fields in Carlsbad. Neither of us had been there before and it seemed we came at just the right time as the fields were in full bloom. I have never seen that amount of flowers all in one place before.

It was pretty amazing. We took a tractor ride up and around the 40 to 50 acre lot of flowers and the kids really enjoyed that part. One of the employees at the field was nice enough to take a picture of us and I didn't even have to ask.


It was hard to get a picture because of the sheer size of the field, but this particular picture of the blue background with white spots is actually a floral rendition of the American flag. You can see the stripes in the background.

After the tractor ride we walked around to see the different attractions. There was a cute little Lego garden (pictured below) with little Lego flowers and a sweet pea maze for the kids to try to find their way through.

There was also a little playground for the kids and good for them, but unfortunate for me, there happened to be a couple of classes out for a field trip and so Jack and Alex got to play with them , but all I heard was mass chaos of thousands of kids and had a difficult time keeping track of my own. It was beautiful and the kids had fun so it was a success.

I would definitely suggest a visit if you are up that way, but try not to go when there are mobs of children... unless you like that kind of thing.