Floyd, Va

Our Floyd trip has finally come and went and it was wonderful! Chase and I had been trying to get back to Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, and all our wonderful friends that live there for awhile now, and luckily we are LivingSocial addicts so we found a great deal allowing a mid-winter trip! A little over a year ago Chase and I visited Floyd, Va for a day trip and fell in love (we could live there, but since that trip Chase has edited his "Must-Have List" for places we can live and added Whole Foods, or as he refers to it "HO FO"). Floyd is a great little hippie/country town, just outside of Roanoke and Blacksburg. There are great little shops full of local art, organic food stores, and virtually anything and everything you could want for a relaxing trip. During our trip we stumbled upon a new hotel, holding a spring music show/market. Hotel Floyd is a local, eco-friendly hotel, with themed rooms. We had the "Blue Ridge Parkway" room (how perfect is that?) Every room also offers king-sized beds (I cannot explain how wonderful this is, since we are used to our double at home) and a tub (we have a stand-up shower with a wild temperature gauge). To say the least we LOVE Hotel Floyd and will go back any time we have the chance! I almost forgot to include how we had the opportunity in the first place: Living Social. We check this site everyday and try to find good deals on fun getaways. We got the hotel for two nights for $119.00 and that including a tour and two wine tastings at Chateau Morrisette.

Now that I've gushed over my love for all things organic-granola-crunchy-hippie-lovey-dovey-eco-friendly, I can now share more about our trip. We spent Friday afternoon in-route to Floyd, stopping in Blacksburg to enjoy some wings at our favorite smoked-wings brewery, Bull & Bones. The wings were fantastic and overall a great little break from my trek (I drove, making it my trek and Chase's leisure roll). After a brief run-though of Blue Ridge Mountain Sports and wanting to indulge and buy patagonia fleece jackets and vibram five finger shoes, we hopped back in the stratus and headed off to hippie land. We had planned on enjoying the Floyd Country Store and seeing an old favorite band, the Black Twig Pickers. We were pleasantly surprised to see so many people out and about on a warm winter night.

Saturday was an adventure in itself: breakfast, wine tasting at Chateau Morrisette, and Shenandoah documentary at the Lyric Theatre, all before 3 o'clock. Being self-proclaimed Cellar Junkies we met our friends for a delicious dinner and then went out on the town for drinks, including $6 pitchers of fat tire at Sycamore Deli (yes, that is a good deal). After seeing all our great friends, walking up Main Street for a short visit with strangers, crushing chips all over some girls floor, and mooching alcohol we hit the pavement to head to the car. Of course, Andrew had more plans...pizza plans. Apparently, Andrew and all of his frat brothers go frequent this new pizza shop, a place with pizza the size of your torso...seriously big. But, everyone knows what a junk food-cheese-junkie Andrew is so I kindly obliged and went with him willingly. Oh how I love huge crowds of shithead drunk people, most of which pay for their friends, oops, I mean are in sororities and fraternities. To be honest, I cannot cope. I almost lost my shit in the pizza place, small quarters, dumb people, and it was not handling it the way that I want to look back on. Actually, i should apologize to Chase and Andrew (Andrew stole a 7-Up...to give me and make me feel better, I know it's sad). I definitely need to improve my coping skills and after such a blessed and wonderful weekend.

I guess the thing that sticks with me the most after such a great weekend is how lucky i am to have such wonderful friends, willing to visit with me and spend time with me. So here's a big shout out to everyone who saw us this weekend!

P.S. Chase has commented that he wishes to be better represented in my blog, basically wanting me to write about how wonderful he is all the time. Yes, it is true Chase is great, always helpful, keeps me in check about being an occasional psycho, but in all fairness i believe i bring the best out in him as well. HAH!