Holla at our new tattoos!

Last weekend Angela and I were permanently “inked” while visiting what we consider our home, the Town of Blacksburg. We have been meaning to get tattoos for some time now, but have had a hard time finding both the time and correct way to go about marking ourselves. Our tattoos both symbolize Virginia Tech and what has become a defining moment in out lives. We never want to forget the horrors of last April and what it feels like to lose a friend. So, we got tattoos to represent our love of Virginia Tech, of our education and memories there, of Fall Football and Spring sunbathing, and of making and losing friends. We went to Ancient Art Tattoos on Roanoke Street, and had two very good artists. Tabatha tagged along to see the process. After all was said and done, getting vaccines is much more painful than getting a tat. Angela’s took only 20 minutes, while mine took over an hour in which a small gun “paints” an image into our skin. Right now our tattoos are scabbing over and will heal like a normal wound, except our pigment has changed! While we could have gotten these tattoos in VA Beach, we knew getting them in Blacksburg would be more special.