We got up early on Sunday to get downtown before any crowds because the cherry blossoms are blooming! They won't be at peak until mid-week, but we wanted to miss both the traffic and crowds, and we had very little of either despite spending several hours out in glorious weather. There were lots of cherry blossoms, some ducks, about 1/6 of the tulip beds in the Tulip Library, and daffodils everywhere. We ate lunch in the garden behind Arts and Industries, then went into the museum to see the Futures exhibit, which has many delightful artifacts including Octavia Butler's typewriter and Marvel's Eternals costumes. These are all selfies, proper photos after I get them sorted:
After we walked back to the car by way of the many Smithsonian gardens around the museums and the National Ag Day festival being set up on the National Mall, we watched the end of the Maryland women's game, which the Terps won -- one of the few non-upsets we saw this weekend, ha. My kids both had plans (one was visiting a friend, the other's girlfriend's brother is about to visit them) so we only talked to them for a couple of minutes, then we watched the season premiere of Sanditon, which I have missed and has lots of women, even Last Tango in Halifax's Anne Reid in a kind of similar role in a different century. We watched an episode of that too, which reminds me how much it can enrage me!
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