The disadvantages of being an attractive destination

Cherry Pits - for DCist
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I was riding downtown yesterday for awhile and I couldn't figure out why the Au Bon Pain was open at 6th Street and Indiana Avenue NW, that there were so many people walking on Pennsylvania Avenue, normally the deadest dreariest street in the city, that the patios at restaurants Les Halles and Elephant & Castle were pumping, even the Occidental had tables...

Then I remembered, oh yeah, the National Cherry Festival, even after I was at the planting of some cherry trees the day before.

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