Picking My Brain

Be on the lookout for some good photo blogging this weekend. I am packing my bags as I type (or at least waiting for the dryer to be done so I have clothes to pack!) and heading down to DC this weekend.

The Cherry Blossoms have bloomed, and we’re off to go see them. Lauren went down last weekend and shared her pictures with me. It was gorgeous! We did go down last year, but they were almost done by then. It looks like Lauren caught them at full bloom. She sent me a text message when she got there last Saturday, and I told her to tell the blossoms to stay that pretty until we got down there this weekend, so we’ll see if they listened!

This afternoon we’ll take a walk around the Tidal Basin to see all the Blossoms. I’m going to try and get on the west side of the basin this year, that’s where the Roosevelt Memorial is. I haven’t been to that one yet and it looks really neat.

On Saturday we’re going to go to Arlington National Cemetery. We went last year with Lauren, but we managed to not see the whole cemetery. I’m anxious to see the Tomb of the Unknown Solider as well as the rest of the cemetery. I’ll also take a stop by my Great-Uncle Woody’s grave. Since he’s buried there, I don’t think much of the family gets to visit it. I don’t remember if I ever met Woody, but it means a lot to the family that I take a stop by. I think it’s kind of weird to take pictures of family member’s graves, but I took a few last year so that the family who has never seen where he is can see it. I’ll take a few more this year to share with them.

On Sunday we don’t have any specific plans. I’m thinking about looking at the special exhibits at the Smithsonians and see if there’s something that catch our eye. If not, we may go to the American History Museum and see some of the more contemporary exhibits. I went years ago and saw one of the pairs of ruby slipped used in filming the Wizard of Oz and if I remember correctly, there was lots of other neat stuff.

And of course, while we’re there, we’ll eat at some of the great ethnic restaurants found in DC. We’ve been to a Vietnamese restaurant and an Ethiopian restaurant. We loved the Ethiopian, and are definately going back there. I would like to go back the the Vietnamese, but since I’ve already been there, I’m going to see if Meg has any suggestions for something we haven’t had yet.

Well, it sounds like the dryer is done. Let me go pack a bag, get dressed and get sleepy-head (aka Ben) out of bed. Keep your fingers crossed that the bad weather they’re predicting for this weekend will go away!