After our lunch at the Tea Bazaar (part 1 found here) we headed up the hill to UVA's main campus for a tour of Thomas Jefferson's famous Rotunda. We ended up arriving a half hour early so we lounged in the grass of his academical village, and I played with my cameras.
I was excited to finally get a really good pic of Ryan and I together with my instax mini camera. Of course I forgot to take a pic of that gorgeous instax but you can peek at a couple of our other ones above. I have to say that the weather was pretty amazing for journey, but after walking from the downtown mall to the Rotunda in my platform shoes I needed a little sit down, ouch.
A really sweet rising junior lead our tour and he really got into talking about all of the secret societies on campus, which are plentiful, and sharing some of the history of the academical village that surrounds the building. Of course the real highlight was getting inside the Rotunda itself and poking around the old bookshelfs. Can you spy where they're at? Probably not, Thomas Jefferson hid them behind the columns of the dome.
We had an awesome night and day trip to Charlottesville and I look forward to a couple of more couple retreats like this in the future. I tweeted the whole way so if you don't want to miss out on our next adventure find me on twitter (@bekuhdoo). Where to next? Maybe Gettysburg or Williamsburg...are you noticing a historical theme here? I'm such a dork. big kiss, bekuh
