Easter in the District

Even though I was away from home for Easter, I really had a pretty sweet weekend. I checked out some museums and sights but mostly spent time hanging out with some others who hadn't gone anywhere either. On Saturday night we had an impromptu supper on the roof, and watched the sunset. We had anticipated going to see the fireworks that signaled the end of the Cherry Blossom Festival, but decided to see if we could see them from the roof. Unfortunately we didn't take into account the large hospital that's across the street from us that blocked 95% of the fireworks.

Sunday morning some of my friends and I decided to go to the National Cathedral. The cathedral is in a very different part of the city and we had to wake up at 5:45 in order to catch a bus at 6:40 that would get us there in good time for the 8:00 service. Somehow it's never really hard to get up on Easter morning though. We got pretty good seats near to the front. I loved hearing a choir sing and it was interesting to see all the banners being carried and the clergy processing in. It was definitely a cool experience. However, when we first got their the first thing I noticed was a large American Flag in front of it...civil religion anyone?

By the time we got back from church it was around 11:30, and we were all pretty tired. I took a nap for awhile then many of us met up for an Easter Dinner for whoever was around. We each made some food to bring and we tried to make a semi formal dinner. There were probably about 25 people there and we had a really good time, and got extremely full! So it has been a long weekend, and I'm still trying to catch up on sleep!