It's Always Sunny in Perugia: October 23rd: I Try To Catch Up

Prepare yourselves, friends, I've got a fair bit of updating to do. Buckle your seatbelts, mind the gap and watch the rudder because HERE WE GO.

For starters, my Appalachian Trail adventure. My parents and I went to this town called Charlottesville, which is in southwestern VA. Home of the University of Virginia and a dang good bagel shop. Very historic and cute. The
'rents and I stayed in a pretty nice hotel called the Boar's Head Inn. Before we even got to the hotel, however, we stopped at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. It was only opened about five years ago and is newly restored-- highly recommended to any tourists of the VA area. That was Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday we got up in the grey, misty 50 degree morning (also I had forgotten to pack jeans because SOMEONE forgot to check the weather, [Dad, this is aimed at you] so all I had was a pair of track shorts. Not exactly ideal cold weather wear) and traveled to Shenandoah National Park.

For anyone who didn't know me as a freshman, two of my best friends and I sang the American classic, 'O Shenandoah' in three part harmony for a solo/ensemble competition and we won a 'Superior' rating. Not that we're arrogant about it or anything...? Anyway, that song has a special place in my heart, so going to the national park was amazing. The colours of the trees were JUST starting to change, and it was even cooler because of how misty and blue the mountains were.

After taking the driving skyline tour and looking at the mountains and trees and such, we decided to hike part of the Appalachian Trail! Which was SO COOL!