Every year I try to attend the DC Cherry Blossom Festival. The festival itself is a lot of fun, the trees are gorgeous, and it’s all-in-all a great thing to see. Coincidentally, a few of my friends put together a picnic (I brought some khichuri), my sister was visiting that weekend, and the weather was absolutely perfect.

Really, what more could you ask for? The only down-side was that the peak-bloom was the previous week, and there was just one small area that still had enough cherry blossoms in bloom. But hey, it was still worth it to enjoy everything else that day.