Thursday, April 03, 2008

National Cherry Blossom Festival

The 2008 National Cherry Blossom Festival is going on in the Nation's Capitol this week. My father and mother and Melissa's mother were in town for Melissa's son's wedding this past Saturday, so we all decided to go see the famous cherry trees around the Potomac tidal basin. My friend Bob joined us as well.



My dad is impersonating a tree hugger.

We drove to DC and found the festival with the help of Melissa's TomTom. This was a Christmas gift that has come in handy. We had to walk a little to find the shuttle bus over to the Jefferson Memorial which is next to the tidal basin.
Melissa's mom Becky is displaying her beautiful cherry bloosom hat.









Melissa had packed a lovely picnic,









which I shared with a pair of mallards on the river.

3 comments:

Karen said...

Lovely photos! Wish I could have stayed for that. I'm sure it was so beautiful. Glad you posted. :)

ShaggaBear (Linda) said...

you mean you fed the ducks instead of bagging them? hee hee!

Beautiful blossoms!!!

Thaddeus said...

Sounds like alot of fun!