Cherry Blossoms: My Favorite

My favorite day of the year has come and gone....the peak of cherry blossoms. I just love it and can't get enough of seeing them, especially on that one day when they are all out in their full bloom. That day was yesterday. To mark the occasion, we headed downtown with every other person in the DC metro area to see the beautiful trees at the Tidal Basin. This isn't the first time we were crazy enough to do this. See how we've changed over the past few years in this post and this post.

Here's a photo recap of our day.

We started out early and got downtown by 7:20am. Traffic was already nuts, but thanks to Eric's terrific parking karma, we got a spot right along the Mall.

This is pretty much how picture attempts went all day. At least one kid making a silly face in every shot.

We started our trekked over from the Mall to the Tidal Basin and began our "adventure walk," stopping here and there for a few pics. That's what I called our day--an adventure walk--to convince Piper and Fletch that looking at trees would be a good time.

When we made it down to the Tidal Basin, everything was just gorgeous.

I love this picture of Eric and Deke. Eric is lucky to have two mini-me's in Fletch and Deacon.

As part of the "adventure walk," we had to cross a few bridges with extremely narrow sidewalks, where we had to walk single file. Piper and Fletch did this without too much wandering by playing a game of running their hands along the guard rail. This was the end result. They were very proud of their disgusting, soot-covered hands.

On the other side of this bridge, we stopped at the MLK Jr, Memorial and the FDR Memorial, which was really cool.

I think one of the highlights of P&F's day was this series of stone benches to climb on.

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Then it was onto more blossoms.

The entire walk, Piper kept saying she wanted to get to the Jefferson Memorial. We finally made it and stopped for a snack before Eric brought them up the stairs to see good old Tom.

 

Deke decided this would be a good time for a nap.

We hit the trail again to see more blossoms, and at that point, Piper and Fletch ran out of gas. They just didn't want to walk anymore--they'd already probably gone 2 miles on their short legs. Thankfully, the promise of the ice cream trucks along the Mall was enough to get them through the last few minutes.

Sweet refreshment.

Deacon even got in on the action. Obviously mother of the year here serving her 10-month old ice cream from an ice cream truck.

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He liked it!

A lot!

After all that excitement, we got back in the car. At home, we spent the rest of the day outside enjoying the gorgeous trees in our yard and do some bubble blowing.

 

Overall, it was a perfect spring day with my perfect little family. I couldn't be a happier