Such fleeting beauty. The National Cherry Blossom Festival ended last weekend, signaling the end of the blossoms. My friend and I headed to D.C. to check out the 2008 Sakura Matsuri, a street festival that usually starts after the end of the Cherry Blossom Parade and stretches across a couple blocks in the heart of [...]
Be sure to check out Goob’s photos on the front page of Goofy Asians. Expect a lot of Miss Universe pictures which is explained below, haha. Great pics, definitely an improvement over my little “point and shoot” pictures!
Opening Ceremony
As I mentioned before (here), the National Cherry Blossom Festival started this past weekend. Goob and I [...]
This is one of my highlights in the year. The D.C. National Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the blossoming of the Japanese Cherry Blossoms for roughly a two week period. It also commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to D.C. “to enhance the growing friendship between the United [...]