What a trip!

The Madonna Inn is a retro-assorted themed hotel that provides guests a unique stay no matter what room is given. The Madonna Inn is located in San Luis Obispo, California. Madonnas first twelve rooms were ready to go Christmas eve, 1959 and happened to be given it's first nights stay,complimentary, to a group of travelers. In 1960 twenty-eight more rooms were built, totaling to 40 rooms. These days 110 rooms are available with such insane creative touches. Many rooms are named after certain cities, or states, even sole descriptions of the feeling the room is evoking. Wallpaper plays a large roll along with fabric and vibrant carpet colors, bed frames, lamps, artwork, and abstract furniture you have probably never seen before- it will blow your mind. Amazing is all i can say. I will go here one day and bask in the time warping walls this Inn has miraculously captured.

Here's a little taste of what you'll find.

Villa rock

China room

Imperial Family

Portugal

Lucky rock

http://www.madonnainn.com/features.php

A Fresh Start.

Ever since I moved to Philadelphia, I have always been in awe of the Free Library on Vine Street. This is the first time I have actually been inside. You know, there's really nothing like a huge, cold library. Library cards get me excited. I have a collection of library cards from different places I have lived. One time I got a library card when I was moving away a few days later.

After voting today, I decided that it was so perfectly rainy, why not go to the library to get some work done? I have plenty of reading to do for classes; fortunately I'm enjoying all of the books assigned to me.

I'm in a little room with one other desk and books surrounding me. The smell of old books that have been flipped through and put back for who knows how long should be made into a candle or something. Remember how Carrie Bradshaw initially wanted to get married in that library in New York? What a great idea.

Photo Credit:
West Special Reading Room, now the Database and Newspaper Center of the Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia. 1927. History of the Free Library of Philadelphia Archive, The Free Library, Philadelphia. 2002. The Free Library of Philadelphia. 4 Nov. 2008 .