The Tour Groups That Bloom in the Spring (tra la!)

[chomiji]

Our office building connects to Union Station, Washington's main RR station. Like most large modern stations, it's like a shopping mall inside, with restaurants and shops, so I usually go there to buy lunch and (before that) to walk rapidly around the ground and upper levels, so that I get a little exercise break.

It's Cherry Blossom Festival, so the place is crawling with tour group mobs, many of them older school children (middle school on up). And their chaperones have enough on their minds that they simply can't seem to keep their mobs from blocking the corridors ... it makes walking more toilsome than it oughter be ...

And of course it's that matzoh time of year again ... when everything's a little more cardboard-y ... .

So all in all, your humble correspondent feels a tendency to bitch-bitch-bitch. > slaps self < Snap out of it!

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

cherry blossom festival...makes me think of sakura trees and people in kimonos and guys with swords...

but yeah, it sucks when hordes of young ones invade your peaceful routine. *hated when they invaded her college...couldn't get anywhere...only times i half considered eatingthe school food, though*

[chomiji]

Oh we have sakura, tons of them. They're very pretty - not just around the famous downtown landmarks, but in the neighborhoods and at less-known landmarks (this is Dumbarton Oaks). Washington is a gorgeous place in the spring. And there are always some Japanese cultural events at the main festival downtown.

I don't mind the schoolkids, but I wish all the visitors would remember that other people in these locations aren't necessarily chillin' on vacation ... we need to get to and from our offices and doctors' appointments and so on.

They're probably just blinded by the grandiosity that is Union Station - it's kind of mind-blowing when you see the main interior for the first time.