Day off

We had our spring break last week. This really has little meaning to us, since we don't have kids in school yet, but Harrison did have the week off from preschool (again), and Sam didn't have Seminary all week. On one particularly nice afternoon, we convinced Sam to take the rest of the day off from work and go down town.

The cherry blossoms were a few days past their peek, which made them look almost brown (pink blossoms mixed with green sprouting leaves), but the day was gorgeous none the less. We headed away from the tidal basin crowds, and over to the Washington Monument.

The monument is on a hill, and often has pretty good wind, and we happened to have a kite in the car, so we spent most of our time flying the kite there.

Harrison would run around under the kite, and managed to catch it several times on it's way down. It was a bit crowded down town (with spring break and the cherry blossom festival) and so there were some close calls with erratic winds, but we managed to have no injuries. We ended the day with ice cream sandwiches overlooking the paddle boat dock. Now it's cold and rainy, and I can't wait for another warm sunny day to spend outside again!