My cousin Amanda, who is currently going to school in Blacksburg Virginia, got married last weekend! Meg and I had some work flexibility, so we decided to make a road trip out of it. And we also met up with my parents there at the wedding.
The ceremony was lovely, being held outdoors on Virginia Tech's campus, surrounded by autumnal foliage and the stately stone university buildings.
Meanwhile, we had been road-tripping our way to the wedding, stopping at some places Meg wanted to see, such as Philadelphia:
And the District of Columbia:
And a place I wanted to see: Shenandoah National Park, with its beautiful 3-hour Skyline Drive road, weaving through mountain and forest.
[Appalachian Trail!]
We also spent an extra couple of days after the wedding with my parents, doing things like touring Jefferson's Monticello:
Visiting the Jefferson-designed University of Virginia:
[Just about the loveliest campus you'll ever see]
And dining on fried chicken in a centuries-old tavern:
[Chicken! Biscuits! Gravy! All-you-can-eat!]
All in all it was a lovely trip to a lovely wedding.
