National Cherry Blossom Festival

The National Cherry Blossom Festival is kicking off this weekend. Aaron and I went last year and it was a party. There are all kinds of wonderful events going on to celebrate the gorgeous blooms. While we were tempted to attend the all day, marathon anime viewing, Aaron Reuben and I finally decided instead on Family Day at the building museum. Here's the info. It's this Saturday. We'd love to meet up with anyone else who would like to attend. I'm particularly looking forward to decorating a cow pot though I have no idea what a cow pot is. Here are a few more of the activities at family day:

Explore a floating Japanese tea room, meet the architect and build your own mini tea house

Learn by folding fuoshiki - Japanese wrapping cloth and watch a pro demonstration

Construct a kirigami sturcture with the Washington Examiner 

Plant a seedling and decorate a biodegradable cow pot to celebrate a green spring

Design your own Anime character

Watch the Washington Ballet build a cherry blossomed inspired boly (boly is how I like to spell ballet at midnight)

Make a mini kite

Listen to Suzuki Strings performed by youth at the Levine School of Music

Enjoy a bunch of other performance including traditional japanese dance and Martial arts

Saturday there's also DC's annual kite festival on the mall and Sunday there's a lantern lighting festival.  Isn't DC a great place to live?