are we on vacation again?

Ok, since it is so very windy, a lot of the blossoms are already gone, but what's left is still beautiful. We walked around the Tidal Basin. This brought us by the Jefferson Memorial, the Roosevelt Memorial, the new Martin Luther King Memorial and finished off where we started at the Washington Monument. This really is a great city to walk around. There's so much to see and so much is free. This day cost us more to park at Logan than the rest of the day. I'll add pictures when I get home... I almost forgot, there was a park that was full of tulips in bloom, that was just an added bonus!

So, I guess we do fun stuff even when we're not on vacation. Today we took a glass blowing class at Luke Adams Glass Studio in Norwood. It was pretty cool, or maybe I should say it was pretty hot! We got hands on and made a paperweight to start, I think that was to get a feel for the glass and the weight of the pole, and probably the heat too. Then we got to pick what we wanted to make. I made a round glass ornament and Bubba made a drinking glass, or what he likes to call a beer glass. We'll see how they come out in a couple of weeks. Like all hot glass, it has to anneal over night to keep it from cracking. We can't go tomorrow because we'll be in DC to see the cherry blossoms, and next week we are going to Vegas for more glass stuff. We'll update that after it happens...