SISTER TRIP PART 1!!!

Well! I Did it! I went on the most awesome trip ever! My dear sister Lisa recently moved from a house in Souderton PA to a darling place in Doylestown PA. This house happens to have an amazing history. It is located next to an extravagant mansion and was the care takers cottage at one time. On it's lot is a very unique water tower pagoda (of course). Well the house was awesome, and probably older then anything in my entire town haha.



After Lisa picked Kara and me up from the airport we drove around Philly for a while (it looks to be a very neat city with all kinds of artsy entertainment available.) We went to this really cool indoor market that had all sorts of vendors with different food ethnicity's. I had some delish Indian food with a yummy Lassi I had never tried: cardomom. I LOVED it. When we got back to Lisa's place we helped with some moving of items (she is still getting settled) and just spent some quality sister time. High lights included Kara and I both smacking our heads on the ceiling near Lisa's stair case, Kara coveting lisa's roller blinds, Lisa's levitating furniture, and squeezing the luxurious air mattress down the stairs. We then had a wonderful goldengirl-esque moment around the dining table-late at night- eating cheese cake!

The next morning was kind of leisurely. We just puttered around and eventually packed up the kids and all of the overnight stuff in a car and hit the road. We ate lunch at Wegmens. The most glorious grocery store you could ever dream of! It was wholefoods-ish but on a way bigger scale. I got sushi for lunch and really enjoyed the tofu that I got. YUM! We wondered around the store for much longer then anticipated and marveled at the cheese selection, meats, chocolates. Almonds in honey, every variety of caviar, nut and berry encrusted cheese, double devon cream and much much more. It was grand! We then continued our journey towards DC! We decided to make a stop at a garden that Lisa's was considering getting a membership to (fun events and concerts are scheduled there). It turned out to be THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON EARTH! Sorry to be blasphemous but I have a feeling it trumped the garden of Eden. It was on a huge, rolling piece of land and went on a stroll towards the conservatory. Well it was well AH-MAZ-ING! The only flaw was our own, we showed up 20 minutes till close :( . Well, we took in as much as we could and then had to leave... promising to return. Days later we were able to but , ALAS, we showed up 30 minutes till close! No regrets though, it was fun to get more time at the garden but it would have taken days to see all we really wanted to see. Here are some photos that do NO JUSTICE WHATSOEVER!
One of the advantages to coming just before close, BOTH times, is that no one was really around, it was our own Secret Garden!
Here is a picture of a vertical garden surrounding some elevator doors. Is that not amazing??
There were endless hallways that looked like this:
Here is the outside of the main conservatory. Beautiful!:
We only saw the tip of the iceberg of this gorgeous garden. Lisa purchased a membership for her and her family and it included a guest pass so go book a trip to visit her right now and you might get to see this!
This was a highlight for me. It was called "the Silver Garden" and was filled with silvery plants mostly cactus's (cacti I guess). Some of the plants were as high as the ceiling (A really high ceiling I might add). It was really an interesting take on a garden. I think Lisa really liked this part. IT looked "silvery-er" in person :)
Each section had it's own weather. Each room had it's own theme. Tropical. Desert. Forest. Jungle. We missed the whole Fruit garden and a whole lot more :(


Here Lisa and I are infront of the vertical garden.


After leaving the garden (the first time) we drove for quite a while. And finally made it to DC! It was dark when we arrived but we decided to take a good look around. We drove around and saw many of the memorials, all lit up in splendor, from the car. We got out of the car and walked up and saw the Washington Monument and spent quite a bit of time browsing the World War II memorial. Being the bad guests that we are, we arrived at Song's house at 11 PM. Song is my beautiful cousin who lives in Virginia (right outside of DC). She was so kind to stay up (with her fabulous husband Mike) and visit with us. Her house was lovely and her food was yummy! The next morning we headed out for a glorious day in DC! Well at this rate there is going to be like a sister trip part VIII. I will try to summerize on the next few posts. This is it for now.