It's good to finally get a chance to show off these shots – we've been busy with searching for our first house, which we finally found!
We headed down to Washington, D.C. to visit my sister and her husband for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Unfortunately, due to a rather unseasonably warm week, by the time we got there, almost every blossom had already turned into a bright spring green!
Undaunted, we still hopped onto the train and were speeding on our way to the nation's capital. Here we have a picture of my "unphotogenic" sister. Always nice to prove her wrong on things like that.
We soon arrived at our station, right under the United States Department of Agriculture building. It was intensely amusing to me to see the special police outside the building with USDA badges on their uniforms, and carrying loaded weapons. I guess they want to enforce proper milk pasteurizing? The USDA is serious business, folks.
After a brief detour via Justine's cartography, we soon made our way towards the Washington Monument and the National World War II Memorial.
I was happy to see that someone had left flowers adorning Pennsylvania's station of the memorial. A beautiful and touching tribute.
Kylene really wanted to see the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and when we got there, I could see why. The statues seemed to be coming back from a long day at the front lines.
We stopped briefly to grab some water near the Washington Monument, and I got a rare opportunity to catch Kylene without the camera in front of her face.
Refreshed and refueled, we continued our tour, when what should we find, but cherry blossoms! This solitary tree stood right near a series of small baseball diamonds, defiantly holding onto these gorgeous pink petals!
Eventually we made it to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial, which is a pretty incredible thing to see. It's got some pretty stunning sculpture there, including this one of FDR himself.
And of course, Fala.
As we left the FDR memorial, we walked along the tidal basin, and were treated to a stunning view of the Washington Monument and Thomas Jefferson Memorial. What a great end to a beautiful day! Special thanks to Justine and Ron for being our tour guides!
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