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4th Anniversary

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Our friends baked us an anniversary cake last night. That was probably the most 'special thing' we did yesterday. We also made rotis for dinner, which I guess is special because we never do that on weekdays.

Afternoon Escape to Turk Mountain Summit

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Its mid-winter here in Charlottesville, and temperatures can dip pretty low. So today (Sunday) when it got really warm here, we decided to drive down to Blue Ridge Mountains to soak in some sun and fresh air. We didn't want to go on a long hike, or one that was very far from Rockfish Gap. So we decided upon Turk Mountain Summit. It was only 2.2 miles round trip from the parking, and the cherry on the cake was that there was 0.1 mile rock scrambling at the summit. Most of the hike was easy, except for the last bit near the summit, where it got steep very fast. We got to the top and enjoyed a nice and clear view of the valley. We took some pictures and decided to go to Raven's Roost to watch the sunset. Here are some pictures from today... Part of the trail was embellished by stones Part of the trail was embellished with moss Carrying everything to the top, except for his wife Panoramic view of the summit At the edge You could see very far fr

Beautiful Puerto Rico

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Our Second Honeymoon, to Puerto Rico Juhi Ranjan                            Sanchit Garg  University of Virginia                 TravelTriangle       juhi.ranjan@gmail.com           sanchitg@gmail.com  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Since our honeymoon trip to Mauritius, Juhi and I didn't have any good vacations. We cancelled plans to Grand Canyon and after many reschedules we finalized on Puerto Rico for 4-5 days. We wanted to blog our fun trip for reading later. We will also try that you experience Puerto Rico as you read the blog. Juhi and I divided the days to blog - she wrote about the odd days and I about the even days. This gives us equal rights to bash each other and also saves our lazy fingers to write everything. Day 1 by Juhi Our flight to San Juan was scheduled to take off at 7.30 am in the morning from Washington DC. So let us back track time calculations to figure out whe