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

Welcome to the beach

Da weekend through Instagram

This weekend, I had a small vacation with one of my really good friends, Chris. We've been best friends, or "BFsterrrs" since high school when I was a freshman and he was a sophomore! The funny part is that this was our first time seeing each other and hanging out again in over a year! Chris picked me up from my home in Richmond on Friday and then we were en route to Virginia Beach. It was my first time ever staying in the Virginia Beach area so I was really excited and excited to be around new people.

Friday, we came around dinner time and met up with one of Chris' good friends Matt. It was awkward at first, I must admit... but after the weekend Matt and I got really close and he's such a cool person to hang out with and really nice as well. Friday night we went to a gods & goddesses themed party. It was crazy... so many filipino people and so much alcohol! My friend Shelby from school met up with us and it was so good seeing here. Basically there were creeps lurking around the party all night so it was hard to enjoy ourselves, but it was definitely good to be out in good company with my friends. I also met a few people but can't really remember their names.

Saturday, I was able to go to VA Beach for the first time. We woke up and got lunch and then me, Chris, Shun and his girlfriend Danielle went to Sandbridge beach for about 2 and a half hours. It was so hot outside and the sand was burning my feet but after getting in the water, it definitely helped cool us down. After the beach we went to a local froyo place called "Yo Mama" and there I had the thai tea milk boba tea. It was delicious! I love thai tea and it was definitely perfect and seriously hit the spot on a hot day like saturday. After that Chris and I headed home and just bummed around. I got to do some homework and actually met up with my most recent ex-boyfriend because he goes to school at ODU. We met up, got dinner and just caught up about life. It was really good to see him, since we haven't seen each other in about a year and a half. I must admit though, i don't think that will be happening again soon. Saturday night, we ended up at this place called Town Center which is kindof like a Fairfax Corner in nova. My friend Shelby came again and we just bar hopped around. Although the bar hopping scene isn't really for me it was nice to be in good company again. Plus, the entire night Chris and I were trying to play matchmaker and I think it was some what of a success! (;

Anyways, the weekend was very successful but I'm glad to be back in Richmond. Currently I am at Tyler's brother's house because my house is extremely hot without any AC and although his house is hot too... it is 10x better than what I would have to be sleeping in back at my own place. It's a little weird I think because you're not here... but I think I can get past that eventually.