Cherry blossoms

We ate too much at dinner, so we decided to take a walk. Our dinner was at Church - St. Peter's - which is 2nd street. So, we walked toward the Mall, and the cherry blossoms. We live in DC, it has been the week of the cherry blossoms - Cherry blossom festival, Kite flying, parading, etc, and we haven't even taken advantage. Our last ditch effort was to walk and look after gorging ourselves at the Church potluck.

The mall is only a few blocks from Church. It was a beautiful evening. For once, the boys were feeling photogenic. "Take a picture of me doing this.."

Here are several Howe boys amongst the beautiful cherry blossoms.






As we walked, and looked at the beautiful historic buildings surrounding us, we felt for the first time like we live here, and are not just visiting.



The boys were jumping off of steps and an AP photographer took some photos of them. Keep your eyes posted for a Howe child in an AP photo in the newspaper in front of a government building in DC. Wouldn't that be cool!

Side note:
Gerred and I were driving around the Mall area during the week of Cherry Blossom festivities and noticed a crowd of people, balloons, tents, etc. Obviously something fun was happening, and we were unaware of what was going on. At a stop light, I suggested we ask someone, and at that moment we both glanced out the window and saw some crowd control workers gathered on a street corner. I was just about to roll down my window and ask them what was going on, when I noticed they were all signing to each other. I turned to Gerred and said "Well, I guess we can't shout at them." We both started laughing so hard at the absurdity of me trying to shout out to the obviously hearing impaired crowd control workers as we were momentarily stopped at a light...oh my. Probably not PC, but funny, anyway. We never did find out what was going on.