Saturday, October 12, 2013

Day 1 - Anniversary Trip to Virginia

Sept 28th, 2013 - After getting off of work at Midnight, Stephen and I packed up our last minute items, toothbrushes and chargers, and headed out the door. Our flight was leaving SFO at 6:15 AM and we had to find long term parking and head-out to the airport on the shuttle. Luckily check-in and baggage check were virtually painless...we always expect to have a few delays.

Our long flight seemed shorter than expected, maybe it's because we were sleep deprived but we were both able to sleep a bit on the plane. We had a short lay-over in Atlanta, just long enough to grab a bite to eat at one of the airport restaurants. The flight to Richmond was only about an hour long from there, once we landed we grabbed our bags, (yay, they were there!) got our rental car (thank you, Mark from Advantage for being so helpful!) and headed out to the Courtyard Marriot. It was a very nice clean hotel and the gentleman helping us at the front desk was very friendly. So far people from Virginia have exceeded my expectations for great customer service!

Stephen and I decided to take a quick nap before doing any site seeing...5 hours later we woke-up and it was about 11PM Virginia time, hardly anything was still open for dinner, we found a 24 hour diner in the city, 3rd St. Diner and decided to give a try. From the outside this place doesn't look fabulous, in fact neither did the inside, it smelled of Windex and still looked dingy...I was hesitant to even try the food. Unfortunately, we didn't have many other choices. To our surprise the food was good, quiet satisfying and no adverse after shock.

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