I apologize for being MIA in the past few days! It has been an extremely hectic and stressful week that has proved to test me mentally and emotionally. But, moving on from negativities... This past weekend I made a trip down to Richmond, VA to visit Tyler before he leaves for his journey to Japan for the next two months. It was the perfect weekend and definitely the perfect "getaway" to destress and not think about all of my other problems. I left on Friday, and usually the trip should only take 2 hours... but with all of the traffic on the highway, what was supposed to be a 2 hour trip turned into a 4 hour car ride. It was intense.

Friday night, Tyler didn't get off of work until 10:30pm. We ended the night with some pizza from his restaurant and then made a trip to an overlook area in downtown Richmond. It was the perfect night. We spent a half hour there soaking in the view and really appreciating the great company we were surrounded with and the amazing weather. Saturday, I was in charge of planning our itinerary! We started our day off a little slower than planned, but that's ok. Me, Tyler, Jake (his older brother) and Tavish (their friend/summer roommate) had Lamplighter  for brunch. Their bagels are delicious (get the Katie, you basically choose your own bagel, and it has avocado and get hummus!) Afterwards, I suggested the idea of going to pick strawberries. Unfortunately, strawberries are not in season anymore... so we ended up picking a peach orchard to go to instead.

Tavish, Tyler and Jake

What we didn't realize was that the peach orchard was about an hour and a half away (past Charlottesville by 30 min!). So, on our way we made a pit stop in downtown Charlottesville and shopped around the pavilion for a bit, ran into a few friends and then headed out to Chiles Peach Orchard in Crozet, VA. The peach orchard was beautiful (pictured below). We grabbed a bag and started picking our own peaches. The price was great! For your own handpicked peaches it was only $1.39 a pound. After picking peaches we bought some of the delicious peach frozen yogurt they offered as well as a vanilla smoothie with peach chunks inside (best way to cool off in the 90 degree weather we were having). 

After finishing up at the peach orchard, we made a trip back to downtown Charlottesville to have dinner at Marco & Luca's dumplings (super cheap and delicious) and decided to watch a movie. The only movie that was showing closest to the time we were done eating was "Before Midnight" (i will write a review about this in my next post!). It is the third installment to the series started in 1998, "Before Sunrise". I really recommend this movie to everyone. After the movie, we headed back to Richmond and hung out at home with friends until heading out to a party that was a bit of a bust. So, instead we headed out to a taco place called "La Milpa" for tacos at 2:30am! The tacos were delicious and we were all satisfied by the end of the night. The night did end at 4:30am with everyone exhausted. This weekend was perfect in many ways. 

I hope everyone else enjoyed their weekend as well! (: 

With Love, Cassandra