A few days in Virginia

My mom couldn't take off the entire time I was here so I went down to visit my friend Dave in Northern Virginia for a couple days while she worked. It was so nice seeing Dave again! I think the last time I saw him was in 2016 when he came to visit Berlin so it was really nice. It was also a heat wave with temps over 100 so yey! Perfect timing for us to hang out outside...

There was a crepe place I wanted to try out and the crepe I got was HUGE. Like I have never seen one that big before! I couldn't eat it all, and normally I think crepes are not that filling (and kind of expensive for what you get), but I had to take half home with me. We also did a bit of shopping I wanted to do and I saw a cybertruck in the wild! They look even sillier in person...

We really spent most of the time swimming in the hotel pool! It wasn't huge but it was big enough and not that busy in the afternoon (with some shade in the deep end). Swimming and being in the pool is really the only reasonable thing to do outside when it is so hot out! Plus we both love swimming so win win win for us!

The last night as I was driving back to the hotel after watching a movie at Dave's place and there was a crazy thunderstorm with so much rain and thunder and lightning! And afterwards I stopped for gas and there was a lovely rainbow!

The day I got back from visiting Dave was a trivia day where my mom normally plays and it was nice out so they were holding it outside so she wanted to go. Now I love trivia too, but I was sooooo tired (I think I swam a bit too much the prior day), but you know went along cause it would be fun even though I was a zombie. It was shark week and they had shark week drink specials so my mom ordered one and it came with a little shark toy. When she picked it up to take it out it started spewing blood! So much fun!! We didn't end up winning, I think we came in third (there was a tie for second and with all the tiebreak things we ended up in third place), but it was fun and I definitely would go again if it is nice out!

A busy few days, but a lot of fun seeing my friend again and meeting the people on my mom's trivia team I didn't know already!Read more