Last year I was reading one of my favorite blogs and discovered the Washington D.C. cherry blossom festival. I decided then that if I did move to New York, I absolutely had to see these for myself. You can imagine how excited I was when my friends and I decided we were actually going to make this spring trip happen. Without too much prior planning we hopped on a bus after work and made the 4 hour trip down to our nation's capital. It was such a fun weekend and I really have such a larger appreciation of D.C. than I ever thought I would.
I can thank my 5th grade class field trip to Washington D.C. for teaching me all the major historical events I now know but I was amazed at how much I really loved it this time. It really is the best of both worlds, with "normal" neighborhoods, trees, and cars and an amazingly close proximity to a big, fun city. No, I don't intend on changing the name of this blog to loveyourcitywashingtondc.blogspot.com anytime soon, but it just reminds me how many fun cities there are in the U.S. and how great it is to be able to take advantage of how easy it is to get to all of them from NYC.
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Pretty great traveling buddies I have! |
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| The 3,000 cherry blossom trees were a gift from Japan |
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| Favorite trees ever - they remind me of spring in Oklahoma! |
