Hey all,
We recently came back from our last winter trip of the year, PRAISE JESUS. I love traveling but the last three months have been a whirlwind of going back and forth to Florida and all over the place. I’m ready to just be in North Carolina for a little bit! But our adventures were super fun so I can’t complain. Our most recent trip was going back to Washington DC just for a night. We made the trip to see Sum 41 (one of my bucket list bands) play at Shamrock Fest. No, I didn’t gets rat booty about Shamrock Fest, we literally bought tickets solely for Sum 41. And they were worth every penny! SO good live!! Anywho, we discovered some new favorite things while in DC that we would recommend to people traveling there. If you want to read my OG DC post click here. So without further ado, here are the new items:
1) Tour the Capitol building
We were super lucky and knew someone who worked in the Capitol building and offered to give us a private tour (Thanks Kristen!!). This was super awesome because we hadn’t gotten to get close to the Capitol last time we traveled to DC as we mainly had focused on the monuments on that trip. The Capitol tour took us about an hour or so, and then we went quickly to the Library of congress before it closed. Both were equally as beautiful! We learned a lot while we were there too. If you know someone who works in the Capitol, take advantage and take the private tour! Otherwise you have to go with a LARGE group and you have to get tickets in advance.
2) The Old Post Office Tower
There is a FREE (yes for real) observatory deck in the Trump Hotel (enter through the Starbucks) that allows you to see a 360 view of the city. This was 100% worth the three mile round trip we walked to see this, and the people who were working there were super nice and informative. They answered all of Madis questions lol. It also wasn’t crowded, and was a good alternative to the Washington Monument which isn’t set to reopen until spring of 2019.
3) Good Stuff Eatery
OMG YOU GUYS THIS PLACE WAS SO SO SO GOOD!! I was super excited to find this gem on Pinterest (and it got recommended by two DC’ers and one of our work friends who goes to DC frequently). It was incredibly delicious. Robert and I got a burger and fries, Madi got salad and Sondra got a chicken sandwich. Everyone loved their food! I heard their milkshakes are also amazing but don’t think I could have eaten all my food and drank a milkshake. Definitely recommend trying!! They have two locations: one near the Capitol and one in Georgetown. We went to the Capitol location and loved it.
4) Georgetown
Literally such cute little houses (that cost up to 5M LOLWHATISLIFE) and just a good vibe. Although I didn’t love where we ate (&pizza, it was a’ight we all agreed 6/10. you just can’t beat Blaze man), Georgetown as a whole was cool to see and I wish we could have spent more time there and gone over to the university.
So those were my new favorite things in DC this time around! I was thinking about making some itineraries for places we have been to a few times now, so you may see that in the near future. Trying to be more proactive about pinning my posts to my Pinterest, I just don’t have the stamina sometimes. Overall our trip was great, even though parts of it included people stomping on glass bottles behind us at the concert and getting locked in a parking garage (for real thought Robert and I were gonna die for like 5 mins) but it’s all good y’all we made it home with smiles on our faces! What do you love about DC? Definitely share and we will add it to our list! There is still so much to do/see. Like I said earlier in the post this was the last winter Franek vacation. We won’t be going anywhere until May! I’m low key excited to just stay home for a bit. With all this traveling, we’ve got some major cleaning to do before the mamas come up for graduation and Mother’s Day, yikes!!
Thanks for reading,
- Olivia :)
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