After the bitter diatribe I had with the Easter Egg Roll, one might think that I would give up on the whole DC Events thing. Not so. Luckily there are a few events that don't require sheer insanity to participate in. Saturday morning, we took the family down to see the Cherry Blossoms. The area is bursting with spring time and we happened to catch a good view of all the flowers along with several thousands of people. The weather was a bit chilly and the Tidal Basin was cleverly fenced to avoid possible calamity with the rising tide flowing onto the sidewalks. It took a lot of convincing to keep the kids from picking all the flowers so as to leave it beautiful for the rest of the festival. I just wish we could have been on bikes to enjoy in style.
As a side bonus, the kids enjoyed all the various forms of transportation DC offers especially all the plains landing at the very near by National Airport. Tiago pretended to be an airplane with fire shooting out of his knees for the rest of the day. (I must tell you that the original flame shooting body part of choice was his bottom, but I suggested that two knees were much better then one bottom.)
