Visiting Blacksburg

On Saturday we visited Chris' aunt and uncle in Blacksburg. It was nice seeing Mike and Ieda and hearing about her trip to South Africa. We had lunch at Macado's. Wesley wanted a BLT and pronounced, "This is the best meal ever."
Wesley and Lydia had fun "driving" this car.

We went over to the Drillfield at Virginia Tech and let the kids run around while we reminisced about our college days.

Maybe one day they will walk across here in between classes.

Since it was Memorial Day weekend, the town and campus were very quiet.

Wesley and Lydia both like for Daddy to spin them around.

According to school's website:
Virginia Tech was born as a land-grant college, and appropriately, its distinctive buildings have been constructed from the product of Southwest Virginia geology. The university mines the distinguishing limestone at its own quarry on the fringes of Blacksburg. Originally called “our native stone,” the rock has become known more familiarly — and more affectionately —as Hokie Stone. These ancient stones are extracted and shaped by ancient methods — by humans rather than machines. Arms and hands, hammers and chisels craft the raw stone into building blocks. In addition to the iconic Burruss Hall, every building around the Drillfield uses the material.


War Memorial Chapel is behind Chris and Lydia. There was a wedding taking place on top of it; the top is ground level on the other side.

Burruss Hall and the April 16 Memorial.

It stuck me on Saturday that three memorials are now around the Drillfield. War Memorial Gymnasium was completed in 1926. (This is where I had swim team practice at one point during elementary school and where I had some of my graduate classes. ) War Memorial Chapel was completed in 1960 to honor the fallen VPI soldiers of World War II-and later of all wars. (Virginia Tech used to be known as Virginia Polytechnic Istitute.)

And now there is a third memorial.

The tour bus that you can see in the background was for the North Georgia softball team. I am not sure why they were at Tech that day but I do wonder how many of the visiting teams visit the April 16 Memorial.