Historical Williamsburg

Hi Everyone,
   Good day! That's how you say hello in the 1700's. I checked out historical Williamsburg and ate traditonal meat pies, drank some sipping chocolate, and got dirt all over my shoes lol. (They didn't have paved roads back then.)

  This church was crazy beautiful, simple but so relaxing. 

Mini greenhouses to protect their plants!

me!

   This offically marks my last blog post of 2016, here's to many more adventures in the new year! I started this blog as way to document my life on the east coast, that was 3 years ago, sharing my stories has grown a lot of self confidence in me that wasn't expected. I hope my blog brings you some sort of entertainment and as always...

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Historic Hilton Village (continued!)

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   As I promised in a earlier post, during summer, I went back to explore Hilton Village. This time with my Mom! The scenery had changed but not the charm of this cute little town.

   I went back to Indulge bakery and once again they did not disapoint! A seasonal item to their menu, I ordered the Earth n' Turf sandwich: thin slices of steak with strips of bacon and sweet onion jam on a french demi baguette.

Earth n' Turf

  One of my favorite antique shops lives in Hilton Village and it's where I get my vintage kimono fabric for crafting! The store it self used to be a house, as most stores in the area once were, but specifically this building was the local hospital. And because it used to be a hospital, almost every room has a sink used durning visits; the original sink!

This crazy steep and narrow staircase!

   Another fun store to check out is The Magickal Attic, your local witch and crystal shop. Bonus points, the owner has two adorable dogs, named Miyagi and Pixie. Miyagi always greets the customers and follows you around. Pixie would rather take a nap but she acknowledges you lol.

Miyagi on the look out

Princess pixie lounging in her bed 

Miyagi watches me as I shop

    There is also a theater, I have yet to go see a play but I notice it quite often filled with patrons.

   

Leafs and my favorite shoes

acorns

Sneaky picture of my outfit ;)

A little bit of history

   And lastly, if you care to read, this sign is located on the "main" street (the road really is called main lol). 

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D.C. Food and Fall Leafs

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   What does one do while exploring D.C.? Eat good food obviously! From donuts to breakfast banh mi sandwich, my mom and I had a lot of delicious treats :)

   On our first day we had a cup of chedder broccoli soup and a buffalo chicken sandwich from Potbelly's.

   I was craving a donut, so we went to District Donut! A hipsterish donut shop located in Georgetown, across the street from Georgetown Cupcake. I had a apple cider donut, my favorite, and my mom had a vanilla donut. I also had a cup of lavender earl grey tea to accomplany it. Since it was later in the day, they gave us a donut for free during donut "happy hour" :)

"Show us your dough face!"- their hashtag

   We ducked into an Italian grocery store, just for fun, it had some really cool things and beautiful cookies.

Macarons for days!

Wax sealed fudge! Super cool!

   Right next to our hotel was an amazing bakery called Bread Furst. This place was the deffinition of what a bakery should be. It was full of freshly baked sweets, a varitey of different breads, special breakfast foods and LOTS of hungry people! We ordered a brakfast banh mi sandwich which was one of the best things I've ever eaten, seriously, it was that good. And of course some loafs of raisen walnut bread and mini apple pies to take home. I got a pumpkin muffin with actual huge chunks of pumpkin in it! The best pumpkin muffin ever ;)

The pumpkin muffins!

   And lastly. look at these super vibrant fall leafs! lol. I collected a few leafs while we were at the park ;)

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United States Botanic Garden!

Hi Everyone!
   It's been awhile, since summer actually, but I have a lot to show you. My mom just visited me for a week and a half and we went on so many adventures. Again I went back up to Washington D.C., my 4th time since moving to Virginia, it was my mom's first time exploring the city. Besides checking out the monuments we really wanted to see the U.S. Botanical Garden! I took a lot of pictures. Everything was so beautiful, like, extremely beautiful.

The garden is sectioned into different climates and regional plantlife. The largest room is the Tropics: full of plants with gigantic leafs. There is a canopy walk that circles around the upper level of the room. My camera started to fog up instantly because of the humidy and I needed to take off my jacket!

The canopy walk

My momma!

The desert room

a starfish?

bananas!

There was a lot of art students drawing there and I was so jealous lol. I really wanted to sit and draw too but we had limited time and a lot more planned to see! Next time for sure ;) 

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Summer Time Treat

Hi Everyone!

   The summer heat is in full swing, has been since June, and the humidity gets really gross sometimes. But everything is A-Okay if you have a cold drink or delicious frosty treat! And speaking of treats, shaved ice is a great way to cool off! There's a shaved ice stand in my city called Pelican's SnoBalls and they offer 100 different flavors to choose from! Some flavors are really wild: dill pickle anyone? 

Tiger's Blood(coconut strawberry) and Egg Custard

100 flavors! How does  one choose?!

This sign was pretty cute

   Another awesome thing they do at Pelican's SnoBalls is offer a Pup Cup, a shaved ice cup for your dog! In flavors peanutbutter and vanilla. I hope you're staying cool this summer :)

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