Yay Staff!

Every year, Virginia Tech throws a staff appreciation day for their staff members, and this is the first year I am a non-student staff…so I was invited! It was a lot of fun, and I greatly enjoyed being out of the office for a day. There are only three staff members in our office, as everyone else is faculty, so me, Tabatha, and Cindy enjoyed a day off of work with David, Tabatha’s husband. We started off by taking a tour of the Lane’s new west end…which was freakin awesome! The suites go for about $50,000 a year, plus all of the tickets for each game, plus a 5 year lease. I’m pretty sure James and I will never be able to afford that…so this was probably the only time I will ever be in one of those suites. A more affordable option is to buy an inside seat for only $2,000 a year plus your season tickets, which we still will never be able to afford. Once you buy a suite you can decorate it however you would like, and one of the suites had one of the new Hokie Birds in it. Of course we had to get a picture with it. Steger’s suite was probably the most impressive, with large Hokie stone fireplaces, gorgeous views of the mountains, and plenty of catering spaces, as well as lounges, and over 200 seats facing the stadium. After our awesome tour, we enjoyed some great barbeque…I love Virginia! You are only supposed to be able to go on one tour, but we snuck in on the Hahn gardens tour. After four years of living on campus, I was shocked how huge the garden was! I thought it was just what you could see from the road, but really there is a waterfall, and a pond, and nice gazebos. If I’d known it was there, I would have studied there all the time! We ended the day at the greenhouses planting some cool plants, which is great because I got rid of a ton of mine when we moved from Texas.