Dear Anne Frank,

It was 7am on Saturday, when the sun started shining through our window in the hotel room. I embraced the sheer fact that I was waking up in Washington, DC once again.

DC, America’s capital, comes in second for being a favorite city of mine. The first being Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, and also the city of which I laid my heart. I often call Philly my heart city because if I had to choose, that’d be the perfect city for me due to the arts, sculptures around the city and history that place has, as well as the laid back environment of which sets on Market Street.

There’s just something with me and the city. A big something. It’s the city life, it’s the tourism, it’s the history. You go to these places to learn the birthing of the US and physically SEE so many other historical beginnings. I have such an attachment to older things – the tall old buildings, plantation houses, history of way back when. I think it’s the feeling of knowing and the happiness that we know.

Your Friend,
Karen-Maeby

"How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day." 
— Anne Frank 

Dear Anne Frank,

We left our hotel a little before checkout. Sad pandas, we were… to be leaving a VERY comfortable bed, DC, and all the other stuff that comes with a small mini vacation. But alas, real life was waiting for us to take it’s hand back home.

We went to the mall in Fairfax so I could find me a few souvenirs, found them and quickly left to go eat at Potbelly.

And, that was it… we were off back to North Carolina.

Here are some "looking back at DC" photos... 

One mirror picture that isn't failed. 

Your Friend,
Karen-Maeby