Our Saturday

Last Saturday, we decided to go and see the spring flowers at Mt. Vernon, which is one of my absolute favorite places in the DC area. It is George Washington's home on the Potomac River and it is awesome.

As we were driving there, we passed Chuck E Cheese's. I realized that I had been there when I lived here with Troy and Jamie for a summer a few years back. I mentioned it out loud and Ryan said he just so happened to have some Chuck E. Cheese tokens...16 of them. He is full of surprises! Only Ryan Bessey would have tokens in his car for a rainy day. So really, there was no option...we stopped. I was a little apprehensive at first to go into a place full of screaming children at birthday parties. But then, I saw skee-ball and I was thrilled. It was a fabulous side event to our day!

We stopped for some lunch and then finally made it to Mt. Vernon. We looked at all the pretty flowers and then sat on the porch over looking the Potomac for a bit. It was a great Saturday!

Kite Festival & Cherry Blossom Festival

Last weekend, Ryan & I went with our friends Lincoln & Alisia into DC to see the Kite Festival and the Cherry Blossom Festival. It was really fun and such a cool sight! As soon as we got there, Ryan and Lincoln made the attempt to get Ryan's kite up with the rest of the kites...we must have had bad luck with the wind at that moment because it didn't seem to want to stay up. But it was still fun to watch them try and then to take pictures with it!

But really, look how cool of a sight it is to see all these kites flying on the National Mall...

After running into a huge group of Mormons (it really is inevitable at large and free events like this), we went and met Mandy, Trent, Derek and Joni at the spot where the "kite fight" was. Now this was VERY cool. The "kite fight" is where they rope off a big area and there are about 13 big kites that go up in the air and fight until there is only one left. What happens is they fly their kites high in the air and they try to rub their strings against other people's strings and wear them down so they break. Or kites get tangled up in each other and they come down. We all really got into it and we cheered really loud. I had no clue that "kite fights" excited but now I am totally into it!

After we left the kites, Ry & I walked over to the Jefferson Memorial and looked at all of the amazing and beautiful cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin. It was such a beautiful sight! I absolutely love this time of year in DC, the whole city looks amazing. Everyone should come out next year and see them!!