This past weekend I went down to Virginia Tech to visit and go to one of my best friend's graduation. I had only been down the Blacksburg 3 times over the past four years, so I wanted to get some good shots this time around, but it wound up raining one of the days I was there, so I only took a few...hundred...these are my favorite from the weekend.

My friend Jon was thrilled to be graduating

Sometimes you just can't wait to say it (this was taken the day before Mom's Day)

Jon and his Mom playing some tetherball

Jon's brother and I played some checker's...he kicked my butt, he was quite the master...

Jon likes to drive fast, 3X the speedlimit on a dark mountain road fast...

Jon's brother and I played gigantic chess later, it was a close game but he STILL won...the guy's a champion...

A ton of graduates put messages on their caps, these were the last to graduate that day...

We went to a outdoor pinic/barbaque later in the mountains, the sky was just SOOO perfect!