National Cherry Blossom Festival!!

I really enjoyed myself this past Sunday on the last day of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The festival was from March 20th-April 12th. I never ever go to the festival. I usually make my way down to the Cherry Blossoms when they are basically gone/dead..lol Last time I went was with my girls in 2010. During that visit, the Cherry Blossoms were barely there, it was late April.

However, this time they were fully bloomed, vibrant and so gorgeous!

Such a sight to see! So many Cherry Blossom trees! You like that rhyme?

My mom is visiting from Ghana and I try to take her walking every Sunday after church. I thought that the Cherry Blossom Festival would be perfect! We walked for two hours! YAY us. For my mom, that is good! We got off at the Smithsonian Metro station. We walked from there to the Washington Monument, then the Tidal Basin and then the Thomas Jefferson Memorial which my mom was so fascinated by. I actually didn’t feel like walking there because my big bag was weighing me down and there were just too many people walking in that direction. However, my mom insisted that we walk there before heading home. Who would’ve thunk that my mom would convince me to keep walking? I am always telling her “Let’s keep walking” because she starts to complain and she gets restless.

That’s the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in the distance. I thought we would never get there.

On our way there, we ran into some Hula Dancers.

We watched them dance for a bit. See the video below.

I snapped some shots of the Washington Monument on the way. I love capturing it from different angles 🙂

Once we reached the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, I realized it was less crowded than the areas near the Cherry Blossoms (the Washington Monument and Tidal Basin).We even managed to take a cute pic with Washington monument in the background. God bless the woman that took this for us because the selfie struggle was REAL. I even saw people with selfie sticks.

My mom & I even sat down on the steps for a little break.

My mom really enjoyed the Jefferson Memorial and she seemed more fascinated with that than anything else we saw that day. I’m not sure why but hey if she likes it I LOVE IT!

Random monument pic below. One day I would love to go inside of the Washington Monument!

These paddle boats looked like so much fun! I asked my mom if she wanted to get in them and she said no. Can’t say I was surprised. We both can’t swim but that’s what the life jackets are for..lol

Cherry Blossoms or not DC is always so nice to visit! I plan to take my mom back so she can see the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

If you check out my post from last April called Spring Happenings, I have a list of parks and gardens to visit in DC and MD! Feel free to check it out .

Also the Cherry Blossoms were a gift from the Japanese, click here to read more about the history of them.