Virginia Tech

Today Jim took us on a tour of Virginia Tech campus which stretches over a huge area and comprises many large building including a football stadium that holds 66,000 fans - and did so last weekend for Homecoming. (They're the Hokies and the football team is doing very well in the current competition.)

A memorial to the 32 students and faculty shot by a deranged student in 2007 is most moving and we spent some time there reading about the victims.

The Hahn Horticultural Garden also has a memorial, both in restrained good taste - but so sad. The Garden has beautiful trees, ponds, flowers and no-one there, so wonderfully peaceful. Carol and I went off to the hairdressers while Jim and David went target shooting from the back patio. (The yellow ATV is to drive up the hill to check the target. )