Look who's in the big town

So I was back in D.C. for an incredible whirlwind tour of about 40 hours (gasp), and, gotta say, it was fascinating to do it with a group of people, most of whom have not been to D.C. or who have been only on their eighth-grade class trip.
Some of the things that blow me away about D.C. that also impress or surprise people who've hardly been there:

• The Holocaust museum
• The Chinatown arch
• How walkable a city it is
• The cherry blossoms
• All the blossoms, actually
  

Some of the things that at some point stopped blowing me away (in some cases, when I was 7) that impress or surprise some of the people who've hardly been there:

• How expensive drinks are
• That the Capitol and the White House are not the same thing
• That the Capitol and the White House are kind of far apart
• T-shirt vendors
• The Cherry Blossom Festival
• Starbucks

Definitely good to be back in town for a little bit. After a more-eventful-than-I-had-hoped trip home, I am glad to be able to report that the last of the snow melted off my deck Thursday before I left, and it has not been replaced with more snow. Today, we expect highs in the 40s.