Sometimes I like to do things just for the chance to have some spontaneous fun. I think through a general plan, but I don’t spend a lot of time looking into the little details. Case and point, this past Monday. The cherry blossoms are in bloom down in DC, and all the big festivities were this past weekend. I wouldn’t have gone near downtown over the weekend for anything – too many crowds, tourists, etc. However, I heard that Monday was going to be a beautiful day, and since I teach in the morning on Monday, I thought it would be a great day to surprise the girls with taking them out of school after I finish teaching and we’d all go downtown to hang out and check out the cherry blossoms. I did this one year, and they had so much fun. I guess the biggest difference was that the cherry blossoms were technically past their peak when we did this before.
Anyway, I got the girls out of school and off we drove to DC. I will spare you the details, but we were in so so much traffic once we crossed over the bridge into DC, completely locked in between a million frustrated drivers, road closures, and tour buses. Clearly, I was wrong about all the cherry blossom mania happening over the weekend only. I knew it would be somewhat crowded, but I had NO IDEA that we would sit in the car for two hours and not find a single place to park anywhere within the conceivable vicinity of the Tidal Basin.
We literally had to abandon our idea of getting out of the car. Even though we were so close that the cherry blossoms were literally drifting in our car windows as the breeze blew, there was not a single area open in which to park. Tow trucks and police officers were having a field day! Anyway, we stopped at Roosevelt Island on our way back – trying to make a little fun of the disaster, but it wasn’t really that exciting for the girls after the let down of the cherry blossom ordeal. Oh well, we tried!
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