Memories Wilt

We spent the last night and today in Blacksburg. We really didn't do much today, we're resting up for tomorrow and the days to come. This morning we had breakfast at a vegetarian restaurant. It was really good, and pretty cheap considering the quality of the ingredients.
After that, Jacob got his bike from the bike store and we rode down to the Virginia Tech campus. The campus is gorgeous. All the buildings look very similar in architectural and material design, giving the campus a very uniform, and large feeling. We also saw the memorial to the victims of the shooting in front of Burgess Hall. It was a very odd feeling. Seeing the names of all the people really hits you hard when your actually there. Many of the victims' friends left notes, and some personal belongings on the lawn by their respective memorial stones. There were a lot of wilted flowers, some were fresh, some were dead. It seems like the memories of the tragedy had wilted along with the flowers, but it was very clear the memories would never die. We also saw Norris Hall. There was a large fence around it, and there were "No Trespassing" signs everywhere. It was surreal to think that a few weeks before, this was the site of the largest collegiate massacre in history.
To get off the somber subjects, we rode through campus a little more, and went to Taco Bell. We have to get up early to ride tomorrow. Hopefully it will be a relatively painless ride...