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I thought it would be fun (after seeing another website) to take my Turtle around on adventures and take pictures of her. Yes, it's cheesy. Yes, it's been done before....but with a turtle? I think not!

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Monday, July 23, 2007

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.

The festival, it turns out, was a real happening event. Held in the yard of the historic Ettrick United Methodist Church, not much seemed to be going on. The Pipe and Drum Corp was packing up. A few individuals had set up displays full of wares. If memory serves me right, one was selling heavily beaded jewelry, another had old bottles, and the third was some American Indian merchandise. A few people were eating Fire and Rescue Chicken dinners.

And you can't have a Heritage day festival without the obligatory army jeeps.


Since the day turned out to be a bust, we headed down towards historic Petersburg. While there, we came across this burned out trolley car, and a restored fire engine? I don't know if we were supposed to be there or not, but we snuck some pictures anyways.

So, I hope you enjoyed a view of Ettrick and Petersburg. Check back for more of my travels to be posted soon.




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