day 67

we were awoken by the sun and its heat so we packed up and headed to kroger to grab some breakfast. we then headed out on the short ride to charlottesville. only rode for about 3 hrs which was nice. we didn't have a crazy hill to climb, just a bit of a gradual incline then had a wonderful long downhill where we could catch glimpses of the shenadoah valley, sadly there weren't any places to pull off and take pictures, i tried! we got into town and met up with brian, the guy we would be couchsurfing with. he lives in a college house that is exactly what i picture in animal house. there are a handful of guys that live there and they are all great. we hung out with will and brian and then we got showered and did some laundry. we then headed downtown to the historic mall which is a cool place where we hit up a bookstore, eco store, sign shop, and then saw the music pavilion down at the end where they have live music every friday night and it was friday! we grabbed a burger and fries at 5 guys, which was super good. we rode our bikes down there then tried to hit up a boise bike project style shop called community bikes, but they were closed that day. we went back to their casa and chilled until returning to downtown to meet up with some other guys they live with. we then hit up the show where jebus was playing, they weren't my kind of music but it was fun to just hangout and chat. oh earlier that day brian showed us a mural he did just a bit ago for the university. it was the 4 seasons and we had to lift up a grate and climb down the ladder to see it since it was for the faculty offices which were in the basement. we then went back to their casa and hungout till late that night. we met a ton of their friends and got to chat with them about our trip and what they're up to. it was a great evening. did i mention we wathed who framed roger rabbit and jurassic park 3? ha! we also went to a cool pizza place, like the pie hole, twice that night. it was that good!