Vacation Part 2 (Subtitled: Day 2 in DC)

So this day was the 2nd day of the Cherry Blossom Festival for us, and thanks to a snow storm on an earlier weekend that had moved the Kite Festival we got to see lots of kites.  Some of these photos are my favorites from the vacation.

 This was the view as we walked towards the Washington Monument.  You can only barely see the kites even though they actually filled the sky on the bottom right.  I put arrows in the photo for the two kites that can just barely be seen.

This was the view when closer of the same bottom right area in the previous photo.

This is a very simple kite in comparison to many I saw that day, but it is still one of my favorite photos.

This butterfly/dragon type of kite as well as the long string of small kites were some of my favorite types.  It was really impressive to watch them get the small kites up in the air.  Hard to explain, but impressive.

 These large kites were also some of my favorites.  And I'm realizing that I'm saying these are my favorites a lot, but, well, they all are.  :-)

 This was my favorite from the homemade kite competition.  The kid who was flying it and presumably made the kite had that typical high school nerd look.

 Now this kite was my true actual favorite of all the kites that day.  Why I didn't take a video so you could truly see how cool this kite, I just don't know.  Those three tails swirl the whole time the kite is flying.

 This is just one of the shots I really like.

Once again one of my favorite shots.  If you look closely, you can see a kite flying on the upper right near the top of the monument.

And of course the obligatory cherry tree shot that must be shown having visited the National Cherry Tree Festival.

This is probably actually my favorite photo from the festival. It was late in the season so most of the trees had already turned from white to pink, but I just really like the contrasts in colors in this one.