It was year end on Friday and we smashed through our sales target! By some miracle all of the big orders we were waiting on came through on Friday morning and we overshot our target by $3M!! Woohoo!!! I'd had a couple of sleep disturbed nights fretting about one particular order, so when it came through (at 3am on Friday morning) I was actually sending out congratulatory e-mails within a few minutes of receiving the news!!
As a thank you Paul sent us home early, so Stephen and I thought we'd take advantage of the free afternoon and go and see the Cherry Blossom in DC. Of course everyone else within a 300 mile radius had had the same idea!! Traffic was hideous as we crawled around trying to find parking...finally got a spot quite near the Tidal Basin (only about a 10 minute walk away). The traffic issues were worth it though - the blossom was beautiful. There are thousands of cherry trees lining the tidal basin and they are all covered in fragile pink blossom. Breathtaking!!
As we had only done a cursory tour of the monuments previously we decided to walk from the Jefferson round to the Lincoln, taking in the Franklin D Roosevelt en route. We also stopped at the Korean war memorial and the Vietnam memorial. I had seen photos of the black marble wall inscribed with the names of the fallen, but I had no idea of the scale. The names are very small and the wall is very long....
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