We arrived in Washington D.C. on a Friday and discovered that we were just in time for the Cherry Blossom festival!  We drove into the city on Sunday but because of the Cherry Blossom timing the traffic was HORRIBLE!  It took us several hours to get through the downtown area as traffic was truly bumper-to-bumper and moving at about 1mph with pedestrians everywhere!

We did get a few pictures of cherry blossoms though – here they are: