At the Cherry Blossoms

Tidal Basin and Jefferson Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

Washington
Monument

Cherry Blossoms line the basin

The cherry blossoms in downtown D.C. have reached their peak bloom, weeks before they did last year. We took the Metro down and met my dad for a lunch at Potbelly, and then walked around the tourist-filled tidal basin. The Cherry Blossom Festival had just started, and will continue into mid-April, though the trees will turn green in about a week or two. It was cloudy at first, but when we passed the Jefferson Memorial, the sun came out. It made for a beautiful spring day (70s). It was less crowded for a while near the FDR Memorial, allowing us to truly enjoy the trees and watch the boaters on the basin. Last year, we went on a cold, ugly, and rainy day. We are thankful that we had good weather today! 

A branch up close

MLK Memorial

Skiing at Liberty

Great snow conditions

Since we had the day off, we drove up to Liberty Mountain Resort, PA, to go skiing for a day. The huge blizzard last weekend gave us great ski conditions, and there were very few people there. We hope to buy our own ski equipment soon, because we are interested in going regularly. 

Blizzard bigger than Snowmageddon!

After the storm

The neighborhood
recovers

We measured around 23 inches on our front lawn... probably more than what we measured in 2010 when Snowmageddon came and caused us to stay without power for 36 hours straight. This time, we didn't lose power at all. Micah got to go sledding several times, and Eli and I made some money shoveling snow. We have lost five days of school because most streets, including ours, weren't plowed until Tuesday. The storm was over by Sunday morning. We hope that it won't snow again, so that we don't have to have the school year extended, like we did the last two years.

The back deck