I know this comes as no surprise to anyone but Jed & I are NOT runners. I prefer to run only when absolutely necessary. But once a year there is a race that hopefully we will always run, no matter what. This year's race was similar to many years but also a little different. As time goes by people move away and we loss our running buddies so this year we ran the race just the two of us in a sea of 9,000 fellow hokies.
It was great to spend the morning with that many Hokies and this year there were two highlights of the race. The first being having the opportunity to run through the tunnel at Lane Stadium (that never gets old) and Jed was interviewed for one of the local tv stations. (Check the link here)
After the race, we spent some time on the drill field before Jed had to head off to work. But once he finished up work, we headed north to meet Terri.
Saturday night we had dinner at Big Bowl and had a great time catching up on life, laughing and being silly.
Sunday morning we had plans to head to the National Cathedral for the Palm Sunday service but it just didn't happen. So we switched over to Plan B and headed into DC to grab some breakfast and check out the Cherry Blossoms. Our first priority was food and after Lincoln's Waffle Shop didn't pan out for us, we took a quick detour to Le Pain Quotidien and we were not disappointed.
From breakfast, we headed down to the Tidal Basin to see what all the cherry blossom talk was all about. OH MY GOODNESS, it was great. There were a million people there but the cherry blossoms were beautiful!
We spent the next few hours walking entirely around the basin taking WAY too many of the exact same pictures. My favorite part by far was when it "snowed" cherry blossom leaves. It was so difficult to capture that on a camera but it will definitely be a great memory of the trip.
As we made our way around, we stopped to enjoy many of the monuments. For me, it was my first trip to the Jefferson Memorial. Jed was not thrilled to be there but he was a good sport about it. You know how he feels about that school Jefferson is responsible for...
We also stopped to enjoy the FDR Memorial & the MLK Memorial.
By the time we finished at the Basin and the memorials, it was time to grab a quick bit to eat at Potbelly's and find our last adventure before heading home.
Our last stop in DC for the weekend was the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial. WOW! Just WOW! I do not have to words to describe this memorial. It was just amazing and I am so thankful that we made this stop before heading home. There is a phone number that you call where they walk you through the memorial on your phone. They have a short version (the 3 of us listened to that one at the memorial) and a longer version. Jed and I listened to that one on the drive home. Very powerful stuff. This is a must if you are ever in DC.
I am so glad we were able to make the trip to see the Cherry Blossoms and that Terri was able to meet up with us. It was a great way to end our weekend.
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