The Golden Triangle (Pre-Game)

May 17th - May 19th

Today was my first official day of vacation! Unfortunately, Jed had to work graduation most of the day on Saturday. But I made the most of the day helping Danielle celebrate her birthday. We spent the morning hanging out at the newest coffee shop in up and coming downtown Christiansburg called Indego Coffee. After a quick caffeine stop we headed down to Mockingbird Café for some morning pastries before the main event, The Food Truck Rodeo.

I wish that I could report that the Rodeo was a huge success and we spent the day there checking out a ton of different food trucks but that wasn't the cause. Don't get me wrong, we had a good time and good food and spent some time with some friends but they way over sold this event. There were about 6 trucks (max), a ton of people and there was only so many times we can walk the same block over and over. We lasted about an hour and decided to call it a day. But we did get a few fun pictures before we headed out.

The rest of the afternoon, I finished getting everything ready for the big trip. It wasn't long before Jed got home and we hit the road.

Our first stop on our adventure was New York. Since we were flying out of JFK we headed up 2 days early to spend some time with family. Like most Castro adventures, the drive up had a few pit stops. One being a new restaurant for dinner called Dickey's Barbecue Pit.

Little Hokie Bird is ready to make the trip

We finally made it to Noel's place around 1:30am for the night.

We had all day Sunday to spend with family so we started the morning with an amazing homemade breakfast.

Followed by a game of soccer-Frisbee.

Then a stop at the local ice cream parlor, The Blue Pig.

And next a hike.

Then we finished our day with dinner at Tyrynda Thai, in Sleepy Hollow, NY.

We hated to see the day end but there was school, work and vacationing to do the next morning so we called it a night after a few rounds of poker. (I didn't do so well, I ate all of my Cookie Crisp poker chips way too early in the game.)

Monday morning we got up super early to have breakfast with Kerry & Emma before they headed off to school and spent the morning getting ready, resorting, making sure we had everything and heading off to the airport.

It is a good thing we started the drive early too, between a few detours, morning commute traffic, construction on the bridge and trying to find parking, we made it to the airport just in time.

It wasn't long before we were boarding a 14 hour flight to Delhi. We were both really, really excited and a little worried about what we would do being locked down for 14 hours. We watched a few shows on our little computers and slept and 14 hours was over in no time!