hello all friends & readers!
welcome (or welcome back!). i’m sure if you’re a returning guest you may have noticed my absence here on the blog (which i will frankly address very soon, and apologies if ya missed me) but i’m back in DC and back at school in the swing of things and so i’m back to blogging, which for me feels very refreshing.
a few things that have happened, i transitioned out of my @macaronsandmusthaves instagram to just my personal instagram (which if you wanna follow me, you may do so here @kate_wins), i’ve been in the process of rebranding my blog (say hello to that new logo!) and i had one summer of it, which i will get into a lot more detail in a future post. but to end my summer, and go back to school, my dad and i took a road trip across PA, MD, WV, VA and finally to DC to start my sophomore year at GWU in graphic design!
this whole plan came about because my dad and i had a frank conversation about an ex-friend of mine at gwu who was from hershey, PA. in the conversation i mentioned his homesickness and inability to fully integrate in the community even though he was still pretty close to home. my dad then mentioned that frank lloyd wright’s famous (and now a UNESCO world heritage site!) house called falling water is in PA and is NOT far from DC. he mentioned (as i know he once wanted to be an architect) that he’s always wanted to go to fallingwater and i felt the same way, so we mapped it in google maps, and found it was closer than we even imagined, so the rest became history.
no, actually in all serious-ness we also figured out if we did this we could also see the flight 93 memorial in shanksville, PA as well as being able to visit monticello (jefferson’s famous house), the campus of UVA (which are both in charlottesville VA) as well as being able to visit west virginia which is what we believe for both of us, a new state to visit. and once we picked all these other places our trip fell into place and we decided to go just before moving me in and take a mini road trip!
so we did! and here are some of my favorite photos and memories from our little trip!
The PA state sign for Falling Water! 
The most incredible view of the house! 
The house itself was being repainted while we visited 
The national park sign 
The voices tower 
A view of the windchimes inside 
The view of where the plane crashed 
The beautiful UVA rotunda 
This was the trip of soft serve! 
Incredible peach and vanilla soft serve! 
My dad excited about the ice cream 
Monticello! 
Jefferson’s grave and a nickel for the founding father 
enjoy!
xoxo, kate!
