Mini-Weekend with Travis

Cici's pizza Outside Liberty University- it was FREEZING!! A bunch of pollution that got Travis into talking about the stupidity of liberals and eventually led us to discussing September 11th... A dam and pretty waterfall. Travis came down to visit Friday afternoon through Saturday evening. We had such a great time just hanging out and doing things together. Friday night we hopped in the car and drove the long windy road to Lynchburg. It seemed like a good idea at the time since the next best place was Roanoke and we'd already been there. Trav wanted to take the longer more scenic route- in the dark. I guess we didn't really think about actually being able to see the stuff. We finally found a movie theater, not at the location that the GPS sent us to but fairly close. We watched "Bedtime Stories" which was a cute movie. There was some other movie coming out called Dog Hotel I think and so some society for the Humane Treatment of Dogs was there. A lady in a dog costume asked if we wanted to donate. I, being a rather poor college student, declined. After I stood there for a while thinking of my own dang dogs and how cute all the puppies at the theater were AND what my mom would have done- I gave the lady my one last single crumpled dollar. She thanked us very much. I guess nobody had been taking her seriously. Everyone in that place was holding a dog- like take your furry rat to work day. For that reason I did not feel the need to get popcorn. Anyway, after the movie we stopped by the hotel that Woodson's track team was staying in (which just so happened to be around the corner practicly) and totally surprised Todd (Travis's brother), his friends and the coach. After making our appearance and signing a few autographs as well as fending off the paparazzi we got back in the car for a windy drive back to SVU. Saturday morning we got back in the car to take the drive to Lynchburg again (it was a little less than an hour). We searched forever to find something to eat and eventually resorted to having breakfast at Wendy's around noon. Not quite what I want first thing in the morning (yes noon is still breakfast time on Saturdays)- chicken sandwich. From there we went to the track meet which we were about 3 hours early for Todd's event for (another one of Travis's ideas :)) and just sat inside the place watching people round the one corner over and over. I've decided with as much shoving, tripping, and falling I saw I now can consider track to be a contact sport. I saw my own high school track coach- which was surprising since I didn't think Lake Braddock would be there. That was an akward excange. I think he thought I was some sort of traitor since I was supporting someone from a rival school. ug. From the meet Trav and I went to Cici's pizza which was packed. There was some birthday party going on. From there we drove back to SVU and up to the Blue Ridge parkway to check out what views people have told us about. We stopped at an occasional scenic overlook to take pictures and drove to a couple places Travis wanted to see before he left, yes I mean the football game and practice fields. It was really sad to see him go home but he's promised to visit again. It was a really great weekend and I'm so glad he made the trip to visit!! Here is a video of us driving back to SVU after hanging at the meet>