Today we went to down town for the Centennial Cherry Blossom Parade. Even though I have lived here for over ten years, I have never been to a Blossom Parade myself. It started at 10 and we got there around 11 and we did not go to where the crowd was but stayed at the 19th st., where the end of the parade was. The good thing was every emsemble had to pass us so we did not miss anything but had lot of room around us.
Mia was pretty engaged. It was a beautiful day. We stayed at the parade for more than an hour then headed for the Mall. We passed a pool where Mia saw a bunch of ducks and ducklings. She was so excited she kept saying "yaya, yaya" which was Chinese for ducks. They filled out the entire reflecting pool in front of Lincoln Memorial for re-construction/cleanup so it was not that pretty. Otherwise the picture would come out better.
Our last stop was the WWII memorial. By then she was hot and tired and probably hungry too even though she was still a good trooper. She also got a little too much sun. I applied sun screen twice but I missed her neck. When we got home, she went to bed around 3:30 for almost two hours.She was beat.
