In all their glory

I bring you:

Cherry Blossoms from the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C.!!!

Aren't they beautiful?! Today was the first day of the Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C. We got up early and made our way out and over to the Jefferson Memorial where most of the blossoms were. I was watching the news the other night and they said they're expecting over a million people to attend the festival over the next 2 weeks. I do believe the entire million were there today! LOL! We had the best time! The blossoms were really pretty. It looked like a sea of different shades of pink and white when you looked at them. There was a kite festival on the grounds of

the Monument so it was busy over there with kite fliers. We took the kids on a paddle boat ride in the tidal basin. It was for an hour and at first I thought an hour was too long but after we got out in the water I realized it would take us the whole hour to get around it! It doesn't looks so big until you're having to paddle your way around it. We got a really good look at the trees and the kids loved being chauffered around while Mike and I took turns paddling.

After our ride we walked around a good part of the basin. We hadn't

been over to the Roosevelt Memorial so we made our way over there. On the way I noticed an artist painting a beautiful picture of the Jefferson Memorial and some Cherry Blossoms. I had to sneak in a pic while he was painting so I could show you. He's very talented and I begged Mike to ask him if he'd sell it to us to no avail. Mike seems to think the price would have been far higher than he would've paid...lol. I loved watching him paint and could've sat there for hours watching him....and begging him to sell me one of his masterpieces.....lol.

There were a BUNCH of photographers and artists lurking about. We saw a CNN truck doing some taping too. We even saw a bride & groom right after they got married. I wanted to head over to the National Museum of Natural History for a while but changed my mind. I had flashbacks of how busy it was on Veteran's Day weekend and had no desire to live that over again...lol. Instead we made our way back to the car....and I mean WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back to the car...lol. We stopped off at the Cheesecake Factory in Arlington and got a couple of slices of cheesecake to go. We had planned on saving it until after dinner but managed to get stuck on 95 coming back (imagine that!) and were so hungry we decided to dive in to a piece of it then. Yummy! That was a very nice way to end the day :).