Just west of Petersburg, there is a little tiny town called Ettrick. I think most people know Ettrick as the home of Virginia State University, a historically black university.

The VSU mascot just happens to be a Trojan. However, not knowing that the school mascot was beforehand made these pictures funnier than they are now.



And every April, the Village of Ettrick hosts a Heritage Day festival. Since the Village is Ettrick is so small, and we had a general idea of where it was, none of us thought to google map our way there--since we expected the Heritage festival to encompasse the entire village--making it easy to find our way there.

Boy, were we wrong! After missing the village entirely, we finally stopped at a tiny little store that advertised "ice cream and computer repair" (sorry, didn't think to take a picture of it at the time), we finally got turned around in the right direction. As you can see, with all the advertisement they had up, it was nearly impossible for us to miss it.

Here I pose on top of the OTHER sign in the parking lot. Good thing there weren't any OTHER events going on at the same time, huh?


Rumor had it that the St. Andrews Pipe and Drum Corp would be performing. Even though we missed the performance, I did get one of the kilts to pose with me.