Washington

This weekend I went to Washington visiting my cousin Håvard, who lives in Colombia, Maryland, aka suburbia. Very nice to stay at a place with a proper nice bathroom for a couple days! (the one where I stay in blacksburg sucks...)

Amy, Håvard and the national mall. Which is basically one big monument/museum with no residential area, no shops, no restaurants (excepts in the museums). Weird in a very typical American way.

And I bumped in to these two at the train station!

If you look very closely, you can see some blinking red eyes in the top. This proves that this is actually an alien artefact supervising the white house and the national mall. If you look closely above, you can also see an UFO flying around, belonging to the same aliens.

A Morpho at the museum of natural history!

Hokies

Virginia Tech have a really good football team (american football of course...) They are just called the Hokies (see bellow and here) and everybody here is totally crazy about it... On thursday there were a football game here too, Virginia Tech vs Georgia Tech. VT won :) That day it was totally crazy around here. A LOT of people crowded around in little Blacksburg. And Tailgating EVERYWHERE ... Fascinating concept...

Another fascinating thing was Rockey Horror Picture Show, which me and Christer went to yesterday evening. Very recommended to see a proper version with shadowplay and crowd interaction and everything :D

Me and the Hokie at Squires student centre, VT.

Virginia

Me and Christer are now in Blacksburg, working at Virginia Tech. We are visiting Diana, who are a really nice and incredible good professor in material science. Basically we are just working a LOT here (which is good, because we learn a lot and get a lot done). Last weekend however, we went hiking in the Appalachian mountains. A really pretty place if I may say so :)

Christer and the Torgersen building, where the lab is. Why do we always end up in the building with a part over the street? At least it feels like home :) Virginia Tech is generally a really pretty place. Very small town with almost only the large university. Seems like a really good student environment here.

Christer and Diana

A little fishy!

The cascades, where we went hiking.