Blossom Hopping


Wherein Our Heroine Runs Off to the Magic Forest.
Living in the Nation's Capitol can bring on a major inferiority complex. There is so much to do. Museums, theatre, monuments, and festivals on the National Mall can all conspire to make a resident feel overwhelmed. Paralysis can set in. Paralysis is followed by a swift descent to loserdom, whereupon you go to a cocktail party and realize that everyone has been to the latest big exhibit at the Smithsonian, or a Kennedy Center event and all you have to share are your DIY home makeover disaster stories.

Visitors can halt the slide to paralysis and loserdom. They come in and within a limited time, they want to experience all of the best that the city has to offer. They bring an artificially short timeline to the problem of "where to begin?" and as such, John and I tend to dive in and try to figure out the things they would enjoy the best. In a weekend, we will swirl through the city, taking in art and history and architecture all in one sweeping go.

The springtime cherry blossom season brings with it its own artificial scarcity. The blossoms will only be around for a short time. John also has a day of leave that he is going to lose if he does not use. So today we go blossom-hopping.
Posted: Tuesday - April 05, 2005 at 08:56 AM         | |

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