Spring Break has started, and because of our trip to Spain in March (rewind Blog post about that will be coming this week) we are not travelling this week. We are staying home, spring cleaning and getting things checked off of our lists.
But....we did decide to venture out and partake in the Cherry Blossom fun. We were going to be smart - Don wanted to drive in, and be there around sunrise....no one else would be there that early. We would drive in, find a parking spot with ease and avoid all of the crowds! HAH! It was a great adventure, but we shared it with hundreds of other people.
Alarms went off at 5:00 a.m. and we had all agreed the night before to this adventure, so there was to be no grumping at the early hour. Katie forgot about that discussion and had a hard time getting going, though she did come around near the end of our walk around the Tidal Basin. She's not a morning person.
We drove in and had no traffic, actually found a parking spot very close to the Tidal Basin and we were off - it was only 7:00 a.m. Lots of fun, and lots of photo ops and LOTS of people watching!
The night before, we had reminisced about the last time that we went to see the Cherry Blossoms - 7 years ago - found the pictures and oohed and ahhed over how cute Carleigh and Katie used to be. ;)
Believe it or not, we didn't try to recreate the pictures, they just sort of happened again today....7 years later!
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| 2007 |
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| 2014 |
Look at the railing below in both pictures.
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| 2007 |
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| 2014 |
Okay - this one we did recreate on purpose, though Katie wasn't very interested in cooperating. Notice the level of the railing at head length for both girls.
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| 2007 |
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| 2014 |
It was a beautiful day and SO much fun to be outside in the warm weather - almost 82 degrees today, though it was about 40 when we left the house in the morning.
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| Katie is not happy here. |
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| We made a quick stop to the Martin Luther King Memorial - had never seen it before. |
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| Don said, "He's not impressed!" |
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| Made it all the way around to the Jefferson Memorial. |
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| We made it there 7 years ago also. |
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| Not so happy to pose this time! |
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| He tried to make her happy, and she tried hard not to let him! |
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| The girls were hoping to get on TV, but they were packing up and heading out when we got close to them. |
Carleigh was having the time of her life at the Tidal Basin, AND antagonizing her sister.
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| We also found the FDR Memorial - had never seen that one either. |
Right as we were about to head back to the car, a gust of wind came and it was "raining" Cherry Blossoms - BEAUTIFUL! Don was able to catch part of it with his camera.
The drive home was wonderful - once we got out of the gridlock around the Tidal Basin. I guess getting up at 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning was a bit too much for them!
So all in all, a great morning adventure and we were back at the house by 11:00 a.m. with the rest of the day in front of us....and the rest of spring break!
Stay tuned for the rest of spring break with the Rahns AND a special "Rewind Post" as we share with everyone our 6 days in Spain in March!!
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