My sister and I had planned on taking a weekend to go visit our cousin in New York city. We live in Virginia and I hadn’t been to the Big Apple before. However, two or three days before we would leave, my cousin cancelled on us and we had nowhere to stay. Being 16, I couldn’t get a hotel so the trip was off. Then my sister gets the idea that we could just go to Washington DC for the day and be tourists in our own city. I wasn’t psyched about the idea but then we got there and I was taken away by the beauty of our Nations Capital.