Travis came down to visit again two weekends ago. It is always so much fun. Everyone at school likes Trav and are just as excited as I am to see him. After all the hellos to his buddies in the weight room we got ready and went to the Institute building for the potato bar for dinner. It was pretty cool. The selection of music to play always brings back the stake dances… age 14 and thinking the titanic song is the BEST song to slow dance to. And the cha-cha slide was a staple in the evening’s activities. Anyway, after that Travis, me, Kylie, Abby, Folosa, and his friend Mike I think…) all loaded into Travis’s suburban and we huffed it all the way to Roanoke. On the way there we got out of the car and attempted to have our picture taken by the 143 exit. Not the safest thing we have done but definitely memorable. Anyone who knows up knows that 143 is kind of important to us. Once we got to the theatre in Roanoke I convinced the guys to watch “He’s Just Not That Into You.” It was lame but we had fun. We stopped at IHOP from there and got ourselves something to eat. By then it was late and we all fell asleep (except Travis) in the car on the way home. Saturday morning Trav took me to Ruby Tuesday’s and we started our fun day of random sightseeing. We started with “Foam Henge.” No I am not joking. Some deranged person designed a foam structure to be a replica of the real Stone Henge. It was super muddy walking up there but well worth it. It was fun but a once in a lifetime thing. Who honestly has the time to build a massive structure out of foam? After scraping mud off of our shoes and nearly having to push the suburban out of a mud puddle we make our way down the road to the “Natural Bridge.” It was formed by some river rushing through or something natural like that (duh). We weren’t allowed to walk under it because there were occasional falling icicles so we got the children’s rate. Travis and I could not figure out why they charged people to look at a piece of nature but they did. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed the walk to the bridge. From there we made our way over to a creek by the school. It was absolutely freezing but we stuck our feet in and cleaned off our shoes. It was a lot of fun. We ran over to "frank's for the Memories to get awesome smoothies. Travis had never been there and I wanted to make sure he had the experience before he left. We had our smoothies at the girls basketball game (they pummeled the other team so badly) and ate a little but at the new on-campus cafe, Jonzzey's. Before we knew it it was time for Travis to go home. As always we took some great pictures, did some awesome things, and made a bunch of memories. We always joke that “we are such fun people, other people must feel bad they can’t be as fun as us.”
Here are a few videos from the weekend:
at Natural Bridge, at the Creek, and at IHOP
