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!

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   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

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   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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Grandview Nature Preserve

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   I was doing some research of the beaches in my surrounding area, trying to find a nice place to hunt for sea glass. My husband and I drove about 20-30mins to a beach that was located on a nature preserve. Upon arriving, we parked by the entrance for the trail that leads to the beach, which is actually in a residental neighborhood! The trail cuts right through a swamp marsh, with lots of tall grass on either side and a few wooden sitting benches. In the morning heat the cicadas were already humming and chirping, singing, as dragonflies darted about. 

The trail had lots of small rocks!

   Eventually the trail became more sandy as we got closer to the ocean :)

The first glimce of the ocean!

   You can't tell by the pictures but the beach was covered in sea shells! I collected some really beautiful shells and a passing stranger asked if I was collecting sea glass, which I responed yes and she handed me some pieces she found! Amongst the sea shells, other forms of sea life can be found: jellyfish, horseshoe crabs, and some red spieces of algae(I think).

Be careful where you step! 

Not coral. The texture is very soft and flexiable.

   It was one of the most beautiful, private, beaches I've ever been too and I can't wait to return :)

   And on a side note, that same stranger from before gave me more sea glass as we were leaving! So nice of them.

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