If you’ve never been to Washington D.C., you really must go.
If you plan on going during The Cherry Blossom Festival,
be sure and bring a lot of patience and your best walking shoes,
you’re going to walk a lot.
You will also need an extra memory card for the camera,
picture opportunities are everywhere.
The blossoms came early this year and
we were lucky enough to catch them at their peak,
we were lucky enough to catch them at their peak,
they were breathtaking.
We arrived in D.C. on Thursday and had a fun dinner at Ketchup’s.
After dinner we took a 3 hour bus tour called Monuments by Moonlight,
you haven’t seen Washington till you’ve seen it at night!!
Enough talk, let’s get to the good stuff, pictures!!
This is me waiting patiently for the bus.
We stopped at the Capital first.
This is Chuck being silly at the Capital.
You have about 20 minutes at each stop to get out with the tour guide
to hear some interesting facts and take pictures.
Just in case you ever decide to do this, you need to be able to "keep up".
Chuck and I on the steps at the Capital.
The sun started to set as we finished up at the Capital,
this was the view of the Lincoln Memorial behind us.
Here we are at WWII Memorial.
The next stop was the Jefferson Memorial.
I did not make it to the memorial and we did not get any pictures.
We stopped at the Lincoln Memorial,
The Korean Memorial and the Vietnam Memorial, next.
I decided to stay on the bus for these, the bus driver was thrilled!!
Chuck got off and was able to capture a few pictures,
this one was the best!!
I was able to see the Martin Luther King Memorial.
I thought he looked a little solemn,
but the memorial was beautiful and I was so happy that it was situated close to the highway!!
A peak at the Cherry Blossoms at night.
The last stop was the White House,
I think this pictures is “crooked”,
we knew when we took it but we were both so exhausted
we didn't care!!
We took about 500 pictures,
so there will be several entries about this trip.
so there will be several entries about this trip.
The Nikon is still in the shop so
all these pictures were taken with the old Cannon,
I am grateful to have a back up!!
Keep in mind, we arrived in Washington at 4 p.m. today.
Today was a half day and we are already exhausted!!
