Cherry blossoms in full bloom this weekend.

We sat in stop and rarely go traffic for more than an hour and a half. No kidding. We ate our picnic lunch in the car.

And Moby was running at nearly full capacity – eleven of us piled in!

Here is Jenny-Of-The-Filthy-Face and Bill and his sister Margaret with most of the kids. Katie is a mini-Margaret. There is no doubt that she’s my husband’s child (not that there ever WAS a doubt…).

And here are our friends: Caleb and little Josh and mom Stacy. In the traffic, while we ate lunch, I HAD to pull Pete out of his seat and nurse him. I was sandwiched between the two rear-facing car seats in the row behind the driver. It was tight. Pete fell asleep, thankfully. But then Josh started to cry. Stacy and I somehow managed to switch seats (she was in the front passenger seat) and she pulled Josh out.

Meanwhile, Fritz said he had to go to the bathroom, so poor Margaret in the back row had to hold a cup for him. What fun.

I had considered taking the metro, but we really needed the strollers and that makes travel a bit more difficult. If it were just one kid in a small stroller, no problem…but double strollers are a bit unwieldy.