kites and cherry blossoms

After helping Ryan apartment hunt a few weeks ago, we took a walk down to the national mall to check out the cherry blossoms. It was Saturday March 27th, which, as the first day of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, was technically a week before the cherry blossoms were at their "peak" this year, but they were still beautiful.... and we had a chance to check out the kite festival.


Kite Festival 

Cherry Blossoms (my first experience!)

one funny thing about walking around during the cherry blossom festival is that you walk by groups of people on the way to mall who are examining and taking pictures of every tree and plant that is in bloom and looks like it may somehow be related to the cherry blossoms. i found it funny, anyway.