It's DC doing whatever it can to promote itself (and also blow some revenues). I think OP thinking of this:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/11xpcvp/mayor_bowser_evaded_journalists_tried_to_bury/

I don't think the issue was on the Cherry Blossom party bus. Read this:

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https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/11xpcvp/mayor_bowser_evaded_journalists_tried_to_bury/

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I saw them in New York as a kid. #blessed

I saw about four HBs within fifteen minutes in Rock Creek Park (near Peirce Mill, along a hill next parking lot 1) last year. Hope you spot some!

If you buy a hummingbird feeder from a garden store some of my neighbors near rock creek have gotten hummingbirds on their back porches when they put one up for the season.

Do they not have Google in Canada?

Don’t wear your countries goose jackets

Hello fellow Canuck! Others have answered your question about the Smithsonian Museums and other sites, but regarding the White House. The White House website says foreigners should go through their embassy to book tours, but the Canadian mission recently posted a clarification, essentially saying “We don’t know what they’re talking about.”

The only times when I as a Canadian was able to tour the White House (generally just the East Wing) was through friends or colleagues who interned there or knew someone who worked there. And even then it’s been a few years so not sure if that’s still possible.

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much!

Lincoln memorial at night still go crazy!

A week isn't enough time for the museums. They are almost all lined up on both sides of the Mall. Congress is on one end, Washington and Jefferson on the other, Lincoln a little further. The Zoo is up the Red Line a little North.

You might want to see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, that's in Arlington, across the Potomac river. There are tour busses, but you can walk most of it.

Consider staying at a hotel in Maryland or Virginia and riding the Metro downtown, it'll save you serious coin. It gets quite hot in summer, consider coming in April, May, September or early October.

https://www.wmata.com/

Best to drive and park at the metro and take it there. The traffic is really bad.

There are garages in Southwest near the Wharf and also some downtown. Sometimes near the Smithsonian’s there’s parking.

Go check out the websites of the specific Smithsonian’s you want to see. All the info is there for reservations etc!

The Smithsonians are all free. Many others are free as well. You may or may not need timed tickets to enter some of them, or for particular exhibits (just a crowd control measure). Definitely too early to try and get them now.

Lincoln Mem is good (you can walk right in); Wash Mon needs timed tickets, I believe (it’s a very small elevator to a very small space). I don’t know if they still do walk down tours, but those are very cool. All the memorial stones are inside the obelisk.

Go to the Old Post Office Pavilion (the Waldorf Astoria) on Penna Ave and go up their clock tower; best view in town.

As for getting a WH tour, check with the embassy, they may be able to set something up.

Tickets are whatever you want to pay, but there's no admission fee.

First time I went to a museum in another city, my wife had to stop me: "You have to pay first!"

The thought had never occurred to me...

Yup

Yep, heard a lot of sirens too, did you also hear about 10 shots

Unfortunately after peak, which is expected to happen sometime this week, the blossoms fall off.

I also heard it walking the dog on Nevada Ave. Agreed it sounded like gunshots, quickly followed by sirens.

I have heard those groups before those things are quite loud I don't think I heard any of those things this time but I may have just tuned it out.

Dirt bikes/ATVs heading down Wisconsin

I'm coming down to DC (from Ottawa) around Easter weekend to visit my fiancée... will the flowers still be up or will they have fallen by then? I've been wanting to see the cherry blossoms but haven't had the chance yet.