Last Day of Finals Adventure

To celebrate the last day of finals, my friends and I decided to go shopping and I got to see how much Baltimore loves the holidays.

First, we decided to stop by Peabody to see the gorgeous Peabody (the music conservatory part of Johns Hopkins) library since it was recently ranked as one of the most beautiful libraries in the world according to the list here. However, the library closed at 5 and made us question its connection to Hopkins ;). However, the beautiful Washington Monument, a building right next to Peabody, was beautifully lit up for the holidays and we had to stop to take pictures.

After a walk around Peabody, we took my favorite form of transportation: the Charm City Circulator to the inner harbor. We first stopped at one of my favorite stores, H&M. Along the way, I think I created the look that will be on the Milan (hi JHU_Ian) runways next year.

Don’t worry I didn’t actually buy that outfit. Since we were a bit hungry from making new fashion trends, we stopped at Noodles and Company. Noodles and Company is quickly becoming my favorite fast food restaurant. It serves noodles, but in three different cuisines. You can order American noodles like Wisconsin Mac and Cheese fit for JHU_Sydney. You can also order Italian-style dishes or Asian-style dishes. It’s really fun because you can customize it. Also, they bring the food to your table, but they also say “no tips please! we get paid in pasta!” Those are my type of people. We then walked over to the Fudgery.

The Fudgery is the best place to get fudge. They have tons of different cool flavors of fudge. The best part is that all the fudge makers sing pop sings adapted to express their love of fudge. We tried a free (!!) sample of fudge and walked to another amazing candy store, It’Sugar.

It’Sugar is pretty much a candy store from everyone’s childhood dreams. They have every time of candy imaginable and lots of awesome candy-related memorabilia. Here’s a video about it:

They have space food, love potions, and a whole lot more of items. My favorites are the “World’s Largest” items. They have very enlarged versions of candy on display in the store. One example is a 5 pound gummi bear. Not only does it look absolutely nauseating (and don’t get me wrong- I love gummi bears, but one of that size is disgusting), but they also list the nutritional facts which makes me feel like I’m on Epic Meal Time.

While I was there, I picked up some presents for my little brother.

Disclaimer: my brother is a bacon lover. So that he can always smell like bacon, I bought him bacon toothpaste and a bacon car air freshener (?) for when he gets his license (eek!). I also got him 2 half-pound Reese’s cups. I also use the word little ironically because he towers over 10 inches over my head.

After that, we decided to go to the Gallery (one of three parts of the mall in the Inner Harbor), but we were stopped by an amazing holiday light show- thanks to Lex Ham and Melissa Gosse for the pictures!

When the AMAZING light show was finished, we went to the Gallery to shop. The Gallery has lots of awesome stores: Wet Seal, Laila Rowe, Francesca’s, Forever 21, Urban Outfitters, Bath and Body Works, Payless, and Godiva.

After shopping, we needed ice cream and trekked over to Little Italy for Vaccaro’s! Yes, this is my third mention of this restaurant. On the way, we ran into a huge Christmas tree and a Baltimore police horse. It was really cool because I got to pet the horse and learn about the usage of horses in the police force.

We then went to see the Menorah all lit up (sorry no picture) and waited for the bus to go back to Hopkins. On the way, we saw the 3 bus’s LED lights change to say Happy Holidays!

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From the Breezeway:

I didn’t get anything from the Breezeway this week, but I did get to make a gingerbread man courtesy of Charles Commons Connections!