Blacksburg

Two last things about Mooresville. It is the self-proclaimed (I'm assuming) "Race City, USA!" I was not aware of this, nor did I care too much, but it did explain all of the racing vehicles placed precariously on the roof of virtually ever business. Second, it is only 2:15 away from Blacksburg, VA, so we were excited to have a short day. This was partially ruined by the inability of people to merge properly (3 lanes into 2 no less) at a construction zone, causing an 8 mile back up just across the Virginia border which took 50 minutes to get through. (The previous sentence is the edited version scrubbed clean of extraordinarily specific, but accurate profanity.)

Our first stop in Blacksburg was Macado's, one of my favorite sandwich shops when I was attending Virginia Tech. The place and menu hadn't changed a bit. The food was great, but Gus was nearly traumatized by the T-Rex coming out of the wall above our table.

We then ventured over to the campus for a tour. We spent almost 3 hours walking around and playing in the shade. It was great to see all of the familiar places and all of the additions and changes that have occurred in the past 12 years since I visited.

We made it to our studio suite at the Holiday Inn Express in Christiansburg and decided on Chinese take-out from the Hunan House just down the road. It easily put every place we've been to in Austin to shame.

Between the traffic and the campus tour, Gus never had a sustained nap all day. We took him swimming in the hopes of keeping him up a little longer, but by 7 he was trying to climb into his travel crib.