"This Isn't Working! We're Outta Control! Somebody Do Something! AAAAH!"

The hubby & I are back from our camping/white-water rafting trip in Ocoee, Tenn. Although our traveling to Atlanta (from which we drove from with friends) was challenging to say the least, we had an absolute blast!!!

We spent Friday night in Atlanta with our friends in their mid-town condo & had a dee-lish pizza dinner at local, little trendy pizzeria. That dinner was MUCH needed after that long & frustrating travel day of cancelled flights & lost luggage. We slept like the dead that night after recovering our luggage & then we drove to Ocoee, Tenn the next morning. We camped that Saturday night & did a 4-hour full-river white water trip which actually turned into like 5-6 hours because our guide only had us for the day & wanted us to have as much crazy fun as possible. It was exhilarating!!! Scary & fun all at once. Parts of the Ocoee River had class III & IV rapids. Also, part of that river was used in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics.

Here is a pic of us rafting! ETK's hubby is "riding the bull" on the front of the raft. The guide is on the back. I am on the left side of the pic with noone in front of me & ETK & her hubby's friend behind me. Hubby is next to me. ETK is behind hubby. I did not do the riding the bull trick. Too scary for me! But the guide did A LOT of awesome tricks with us, including flipping us out of the raft at one point when it was "safer." AWESOME!!!

More info here: http://www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/Hiwassee/

We camped again Sunday night & Monday morning we tubed for 4 hours down the Hiwassee River near the Cherokee National Forest. Very cool! We rented our tubes from this historic Webb Brothers General Store. How quaint! They piled us & our tubes into the back of a pickup, all redneck-like, and drove us to our drop off site. For those of you familiar with tubing down the Guadalupe or Comal River here in Tejas, this is MUCH better. Cleaner water, bigger river, and more fun little rapids. It was so beautiful!!! It was fun & relaxing! But WOW we are soooo burned! We look like lobsters. Duh! We forgot to put on our sunblock that day. Not too bright eh? ;) Between the sore muscles from rafting and the burn from tubing, we are crying & complaining just walking around.














We drove back to Atlanta after our fun tubing trip, cleaned up, and had yummy Indian cuisine for our last meal in ATL. Tuesday: Back to H-town.

Poor hubby. He is on ANOTHER flight today for ANOTHER out-of-town business trip. I think he misses home & wants to be done with flying for awhile.

Anywho, we had a great vacation. I totally recommend a camping/tubing/rafting trip in Tenn to all. It was awesome!

I'll post more camping pics & info later....

Also, see ETK's posts on our trip: Check out "We Survived and We Survived Part Deaux."

Oh, and by the way, the quotes in the title of this post are in reference to what our GOOFY guide kept yelling out when we were going into the rapids. It totally freaked us out at first, but then when he kept doing that, we realized he was saying it on purpose and we then started laughing everytime he did. Then that was joke for the rest of the trip. He was definitely an interesting person & very good guide! He has been doing it since the 1960's. He was full of interesting & colorful stories and jokes....he could fit in with the blue collar comedy guys. Silliness!! "Woolie! " (what he named our group) "Getter Done! Yee-ah!"

Here are more pics:



I added a few more...thanks to ETK & her awesome camera!