It has always been a dream of mine to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival in DC and in Japan! Well Japan will have to wait for about a year or so, but DC happened! Just my luck, my sister Aimee moved there permanently, she is a high school history teacher! Yay! Well, she was there so I thought it was the perfect time to go on a sisters trip at the end of March with my other sister, Kiki! We missed Kait terribly!!!!!! But it was still a blast! Maybe next year we go back with Kait??? It's a plan! It was also my very first time ever to DC! I love that city so much, I can't believe it! Especially while the cherry blossoms were in full bloom!
I always thought that cherry blossom trees and weeping willows were tied for my most favorite tree of all time, but I discovered a tree that beat those two out for my number one of all time!!! The magnolia trees above! They are shockingly gorgeous! They just took my breath away every time I looked at them, which was often since they were right outside Aimee's apartment! They are one of my favorite things, EVER!
Don't you just want to lay under this blanket of cherry blossoms all day long??? Me too!
Loved these blossoms as much as I thought I would...and that is a lot!
Love this face!
Just being silly sisters!
Inside the Jefferson Monument, just snuggling up to my baby! It was beyond freezing the entire trip, but still gorgeous! My sister loves the Jefferson Memorial at night, and I imagine I would love it so much too, but we jsut couldn't stay till dark because it would just be too cold for the little love...next time!
We have so much fun together!!! Love my sisters!!!
He slept the rest of the time we were by the cherry blossoms so I never got a photo with him and the blossoms!
I absolutely love this area. Love the Jefferson Monument and the Great Basin! It was probably one of my favorite things about the trip, we walked all along the basin under the cherry blossom trees, kind of like a dream come true for me!!!
A ceiling of cherry blossoms...ahhh!
We got a wrap and a sandwich from Pret A Manger and had a picnic right here. That was right after we went to the Holocaust Museum. What an important and heavy museum. It was hard to shake off the impact of that museum. I love and hate history. It is so fascinating and can be so beautiful but also so heart-breaking. Always wish you could go back and change things, like act quicker or something.
My sleeping baby bundle
Such a cute little neighborhood
We went to the Butterfly Sanctuary Exhibit at the Natural History Museum. It was so cool. So many different types of butterflies fluttering everywhere.
The butterflies kept landing on our heads but we really wanted one to land on Asher's and one finally did. Pretty adorable!
We ate at 7th Hill Pizza...best pizza I've ever had outside of Italy without a doubt! It was AMAZING and the ingredients were so fresh, I can't wait to go back there someday! We also ate at the best falafel place ever, I am all about the falafel! I can't remember the name, I'll have to ask Aimee, but it was a little bit of heaven.
Asher in the crazy hat!
It was so fun to finally see all these monuments in person, DC really is such a beautiful place!
Lots of fun times on the subway
I sent this photo to Jake telling him that his wife looked very maternal..come on guys, get on it, we need more babies around!
DC!!!
Asher passed out! He was up about every 30 minutes at night (no exaggeration!) so he and we were all pretty exhausted the whole trip!
While I was in DC, Mitch sent me these photos of the fun sleepovers they were having together in the family room. They are lucky that they have such a fun daddy!
