It was uneventful and very quiet after last year's stabbings, fights and general bad behavior.
I was at the VB Court House several years ago on business when the “students,” lined up and shackled, were brought into the building. Most were 40’s or older, very rough and obviously not college students. One of the police horses was killed that year by these “not students” and the hotels were trashed.
One does wonder why municipalities put up with these things.
We visited the Virginia Beach area about 4 years ago. There is an absolutely beautiful state park there that is on the Chesapeake Bay. Our caravan consisted of 3 couples in 3 campers.
On Saturday evening, we ventured into the city of Virginia Beach. Apparently there was some sort of cheerleading competition going on. The husband and I, along with one of the other couples, rented a 4-person vehicle that works like a bike, and there are lanes that run parallel to the boardwalk that one is expected to use with such vehicle.
We learned early on that the thing does not have brakes. As we were approaching a crowd of rather young children who were evidently rehearsing and were surrounded by a large group of adults, we were calling for them to clear the trail. I was shouting, “This has no brakes! We can’t stop!” But our pleas were ignored.
We nearly wrecked the dang thing in our maneuvering to avoid hitting anyone by going off the lane. But we figured later that any injuries we would have sustained in a wreck would have been nothing compared to what our cracker heads would have sustained if we had accidentally run into anyone.
Later, we were sitting on a bench near the boardwalk. A couple in their mid-teens showed up to share a “blunt” nearby.
I was glad to get the heck out of the city. Real shame. By contrast, we had visited earlier in the week and enjoyed it. There is a good museum there and a very nice veterans’ memorial near the boardwalk.