For those of you who don't know why Washington D.C. is so famous for it's cherry blossom trees, here's a tidbit of info...in 1912, Japan gave D.C. 3000 cherry blossom trees as an act of friendship. President Taft's wife decided to plant the majority of them around the tidal basin which is between the Jefferson Memorial and the National Mall (with the other monuments). We went down Sunday and had a lot of fun even though it was freezing. We had been to all of the big monuments before, but we had never walked over to see T.J, so we did that and we also saw the National Cathedral while we were driving down. It took something like 100 years to build...it was just completed in 2007. For more pix, you can look at Reagan's blog.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Cherry Blossom Festival
Posted by Lindsay at 6:04 PM
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Aren't they beautiful! :) There are definitely some things I miss about being near DC...all the stuff to do is one big one. Especially now that Ethan is big enough to take downtown without it being a huge effort. Hope you continue to enjoy the area!
OK I thought I posted this but it didn't work the first time so I am trying again...
Macon GA has a Cherry Blossom festival too and has 300,000 trees!!! When we first moved there I saw so many pink ribbons on trees and wondered what was in the water to make so many people have little girls :) But then we learned about the festival. When the trees are in bloom the neighborhoods look like they are covered in pink clouds! Here's a link to picturesif I am posting it right.
Hope you are doing great!
love ya - k
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