Lately, due to general life busy-ness, I’ve fallen behind on my unofficial list of things I’d like to do in the DC area. It’s amazing how after more than two decades of being in this city my list just keeps getting longer and longer. I’ll do this list in two parts. First, things I have yet to do and second, thing’s I’ve accomplished this spring/summer.

To Do:

• Pick apples at a local farm and make an apple pie completely from scratch
• Take photos of the Air Force Memorial at sunrise
• Eat a burger at Ray’s Hell Burger
• Eat Japanese noodles at Wagamama (if they open a DC location, as is the rumor)
• Fly a kite in the Smithsonian Kite Festival
• Attend at least one event at this year’s Duke Ellington Jazz Festival

Have Done:

• Visit the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Anacostia
• Take pictures of the National WWII Memorial at night
• Wander around Adams Morgan Day Festival (I think the last time I went was in 2006)
• Watch free international films at the National Gallery of Art and the Freer/Sackler
• Eat Greek food at St. Sophia Cathedral’s annual summer festival (again, it’s been years since I attended)
• Taken pictures of the sakura over the Tidal Basin at sunrise