Spontaneous Cherry Blossom Viewing

Traditionally, every year we go see the Cherry Blossoms with the Childs and we walk the tidal basin and take pictures. This yesr however, they went with Jeff's parents because they were in town to meet their new little bundle, Sarah. This left us without our tradition and Lorne also travelled this past week for work. I thought we just weren't going to make it this year.
The phone rang on Tuesday afternoon and Shelly was on the other end asking if we wanted to take a field trip to go see the blossoms that very afternoon. I thought a minute and said, "Sure." It was a lot of fun. We all piled in Shelly's car (I should have taken a picture, we were in like sardines!) and we went into the city. Once there, we met up with Matt and we walked to the blossoms and took some fun pictures. We also put out a blanket and sat and enjoyed and the girls blew bubbles and ran around and also had a little snack. It was a lot of fun and we really appreciate Shelly inviting us to come along!