the blackmons in chicago

DC Kite Festival 2010

Saturday was the Kite Festival in DC, as well as the first day of the Cherry Blossom Festival. We're going to see the cherry blossoms later so we went to the kite festival that we had heard lots of good things about. It was a gorgeous day but much colder than what we anticipated. Regardless, it was a beautiful day and a lot of fun. There were so many kites everywhere...I've never seen so many kites! You had to be careful of the falling ones too or else you'd get knocked out. There were these enormous, elaborate ones and then teeny tiny Cinderella ones. Pretty much everyone had a kite so we felt pretty guilty when we didn't have one and Baker kept looking at all of the others saying "I have it". Bless him. He was in awe of it all! And for us, being at the top of the Washington Monument hill, seeing the gorgeous views of major DC landmarks was great. It was a fun day topped off with lunch at the American History Museum and then back on the train for a quick trip home!

I love this picture. Thanks to the guy that took it for us! Would you believe that this was our first time going to the monument since we moved here? Not the first ever

but the first in YEARS!

The White House

The main kite area behind us where the competitions took place.

Baker standing proudly with the kites.

This is pretty much what we saw the entire time...his back.

He ran all over the place. He looks so small here next to the monument.

A view of the Lincoln Memorial and the WWII Memorial

It's not often that you see the Washington Monument surrounded with hundreds of kites.

There were so many of them that they looked like birds .

Leaving the festival