Arrived into DC last evening after an easy 5 hr flight to Doha and a "not so easy" 14 hr flight from Doha to DC. Fortunately Qatar has a great entertainment system so it was easy to stay busy and forget you were cramped into a 2' x 2' space...i watched 4 movies. The Blind Side - good, MJ's "This is it" for the second time and enjoyed it as much as the first time, and 2 chick flicks...I don't even remember the names!!!! Anyways, flight got into DC an hour early at 4pm, but spent 30 minutes in a holding pattern waiting to land. Got home around 6pm.....lazed around catching up with Gautam and Andy, had a delicious Thai dinner and then luckily went to bed at 10pm and woke up at 6am!
27th March 2010
This morning we went to T Joes and stocked up on food and groceries for the next week. Then we ordered a take out lunch at DC noodles, came home, had pho noodles, garden spring rolls and leftover Thai for lunch. Left home at 1pm, went to the Smithsonian Mall and spent the afternoon at the DC kite festival. It was a beautiful day, sunny but cold, temps in the high 30's/low 40's F! Quite a change for us Hyderabadi folks who left Hyd at 40 deg C weather! The cherry blossoms are reaching their peak and right now many trees are in full bloom and many are half way there. Colors range from pure milky white to deep pink with all shades in between. It looked like half of DC was out there....! Then we took Penny to the dog park where she frolicked with about 20 other dogs in varying breeds and sizes, came home about 4pm, jet lag hit us and we keeled over and slept. Had to really make an effort to get up at 6pm.
Venkat and family dropped by around 7pm or so. They stopped at DC on their way back to Princeton from N Carolina where they had gone on a college tour of Duke so Nikki could check it out. As always we had a great time with heated discussions on everything from politics to health to food to economy etc. Gautam ordered some delicious pizza and thanks to that along with large quantities of beer and wine we all started slowing down around 10pm or so. They left for their hotel and we are again planning to get together tomorrow...the weather forecast for tomorrow is crappy so we are not sure what our plans are......whatever they are we will have a good time I know!
Check out my other blog for some close up gorgeous views of the cherry blossoms!
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