One of the best things you can do in this city is explore. If you're given a day off, a very rare and momentus occasion, you shouldn't spend it inside. You shouldn't spend it on Tenley campus, you shouldn't even spend it on Main campus - you should spend it in the city. It's such a gorgeous place, and there's never too much to see! Each museum can be seen 10 times before you've even seen all it has to offer, and even then it doesn't get "old"!

Today, I pretty much had a day off, and I'm in the city! I have an interview with Lou Barletta, Congressman and U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania. He's an amazing man - I voted for him ;).

I took a walk from the Washington Monument to 15th and G streets. I'm currently sitting in a Starbucks, enjoying some jazz and the smell of coffee. Seems so cliche - young blogger, blogging from a coffee shop. I needed a break from the cold!

The view from this streetview coffee shop is priceless. There is the National Press Club down the road, the Treasury building right down the street, I can see the monument from the front steps, the capital if I try hard enough. It's incredible. From my bedroom window at Moravian College, I see a sorority house and a fire escape - how ever could I trade that view? It could contribute to my perception.

It's not all peachy keen in the city - there's a homeless man talking to himself behind me, wait now he's right next to me - but that's OK! Because I couldn't experience this anywhere else!

Everyday I realize more and more how incredible this city is, but no matter how much I write about it - there's nothing better than experiencing it for yourself.

SO GET HERE, ALREADY! :)