#DCcherryblossoms

One of the things I promised myself to do while on the east coast by myself, was to make it down to DC for the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin. And I have been worried that I might miss it, but I didn’t! I am here now and it has been a loooooong day........

I planned to take the train down but Amtrak tickets were 240$ for a return trip and despite being shorter than a bus ride I still figured that I wouldn’t mind spending an hour more each way to save 200$, and i ended up booking with mega bus instead. I have to admit that I did consider just staying home for the weekend on Friday night, but I also knew that I would be mad at myself for not going once I set myself up for it, so off I went. Everything went super smooth until Baltimore, where the bus broke down. Luckily it happened to be at a stop right outside a mall and there are certainly worse ways to wait for a fresh bus than this:

But in the end I didn’t make it to DC until around 3:30 PM. I started out going straight to the hotel, which turned out to be a hotel for deaf people🤨 It is on a university campus and I have since learned that it is a university for deaf people, so that makes a bit more sense. Right across the street was Union market:

Where I got to taste arepas for the first time

While I was being watched carefully - LOL

And then I started walking. First sight of Washingtonness was Capitol Hill surrounded by flowers:

And then I walked and walked and walked some more all the way down to the tidal basin. It was stunning (and super crowded - which is why the pictures are all kind of upwards towards the sky)

And then I walked and walked and walked back until I gave up and booked an uber pool. Which got me back to union market 2 minutes after they closed🙁 = no dinner for hungry me😩 luckily they did have some snacks at the hotel so my dinner tonight was a (small) bag of chips and a beer. Not really what I envisioned, but sometimes you just gotta go with what’s available