Cherry blossoms!

Cherry blossom season in DC this year was beautiful, but rainy... the blossoms lasted for less than a week.  Still, though, it's a beautiful time of year, and I'm glad my parents were in town to see it!

Washington's cherry blossom festival

I'd never seen the cherry blossom festival before, and while I'd heard that it was beautiful, words cannot describe how cool it actually is. There are thousands and thousands of trees- all different kinds of cherry trees - all blooming at once. It's magical, and pictures absolutely don't do it justice.

So pretty

Jefferson Memorial

The Washington Memorial rising out of the fluffy pink flowers...

Sunset over the trees and the memorial

Flowers, flowers, everywhere!

Natural History Museum trip

Last weekend we went to the National Museum of Natural History - such a cool museum. One of the exhibits is the hyperbolic crochet coral website (http://crochetcoralreef.org/). This is SO cool. It's basically a giant coral reef, complete with the coral itself and animals like anemones, all crocheted out of different colors. Here are some pics:

This is so neat - look at the fan coral, and brain coral.. those look super realistic!


A more colorful section of the reef....

This part looks like animals on the reef...

We also went to the annual orchid show, which the NMNH puts on with the US Botanic Garden. Pictures don't do this exhibit justice.