It’s hard to believe that it’s been 2 years since we got married. But it has! This year, we went to West Virginia for our anniversary weekend. Okay, so we admit that we may have let the date slip our minds and planned a WVU game trip and then realized it was the same weekend as our anniversary. Maybe we did that. But what better way to celebrate a relationship than to have fun with your relatives?
Andy and I left North Carolina for the sunny mountain tops of West Virginia , Friday at noon. We arrived in Charleston just in time for dinner with Jeff, Debbie and Chris (Uncle, aunt and cousin). Yes, I have relatives in West Virginia too! Very cool. We had the most delicious dinner at ___ in downtown Charleston. If only they lived here, we could laugh like that all the time. The restaurant we went to was hip yet cozy, with a great menu. I don’t usually like grits, but the ones that came with my trout were perfect, and everyone else’s food looked yummy too.
On Saturday, we were up at the crack of dawn. Yes really, I woke up at 6:30! And we were out of Libby’s house and driving away by 7:30AM. I think it was the earliest I have been awake in years. We met up with Terry and Butch at a Sheetz in Morgantown and I have to tell you: everyone in the very busy Sheetz was wearing Navy and Gold WVU gear, including me and Andy. I saw one woman in normal clothes and I thought, “why is she wearing those clothes? She really stands out.” And then we drove through town and arrived at our tailgating parking lot and seriously. EVERYone was decked out. I have never seen the like. We were in a stadium with at least 55,000 people wearing the same colors and cheering like mad. They also kept doing this weird hand gesture (yes all of them) that I could not quite catch. Something about 3rd down, whoosh whoosh, another hand gesture. No idea, it made no sense to me. It was really exciting to be in a stadium with all those people though. WVU lost the game but we had a great time anyways.
After the game, we tailgated a bit more, and then went to Muriels with Terry and Butch for dinner. Muriels is a cute Italian restaurant that Terry had been driving by her entire childhood and always wanted to visit. It was packed with WVU fans, but the wait was worth it. And it was really nice to get a chance to have a relaxed dinner with Terry and Butch.
More on the rest of the trip to come!
la fleur
Andy
