chattanooga daily times

Ok, it's monday morning and i just spent a fabulous weekend in chattanooga, or "chatty" as we like to call it. I'm going to tell you how i feel right now then we are goign to back track it and work up to the present. I have a GIGANTIC scratch on my chest.


yea, see it over there --->
looks like it hurts, doesn't it?


My back is sore my arms are sore and my belly has been on the virge of blowing up for the past 3 days now.

The drive to chatty was fun and quick. It was myself, rachel, cole, and amanda riding up in cole car. A van tried to change lanes as we were coming out of knoxville and they about changed lanes right into our faces. Luckily cole pulled out his evasive manuevers. And he saved us. Amanda lives in the middle of nowhere and her house is absolutly beautiful. Hopefully i can upload some pics later. I didn't bring my camera because I didn't want it to get wet on ther boat.

We got out of the cars and were greeted by amanda's 2 dogs. Buster and Buddy. both of them were really soft and really white. they were outside dogs and i liked petting them. Until buster sat down to lick his penis. Then i saw the gigantic red sore. It was nasty. and it was on his weiner. At that point i stopped petting the dogs much.

Amanda's mom cooked an awesome dinner for us. Briskit, potatoes, rolls w/jam, beans, and a couple other good things. She also made this delicious dish called "chocolate mess'.

This was me after eating the chocolate mess later.





No, that is actually just a google image search of chocolate mess.



We relaxed and played some Croquet. Cole won the first game then everyone sent him back during the second game. . . I almost won the second game then everyone lost interest and started rolling eachother down hills in big tubes. I didn't go because i was waaaaaaaaay too big for those tubes ( i'm a big guy). Once we were all done with that we were going go see a movie but ended up staying in and watching fun with dick and jane.

Sleep, end of day 1

Wake up to the smell of sausage and waffles.

So Amanda's mom cooked waffles, bacon, sausage, toast, eggs... we had all the juices, strawberries, whipcream and syrup we could handle too. To top it off we were surounded by some amazing flowers. Both inside and out. It was quite a tasty breakfast. We all then split up, boys down girls up. (that is how we slept and yea) and got ready to goto the lake. Some of us showered some did not. I did because it was a nice shower. John ballard and i played a 'quick' game of ping pong. First to 21 wins, you must win by 2 points, on the game point the winner must defend. Game ended John ballard 29, john kennedy 31... YEA!

And you can tell there were 2 johns on the trip this weekend. You can imagine that might get very confusing. We threw around some ideas; using middle names, completely different names, something else! we ended up settling on a number system. I(john kennedy) was 11. John Ballard was 2. If you had to address us both we were 13. Only 2 and I really stood by the rule. I believe rachel was the only other person that used it normally and that was once. Other people had numbers but they dind't really stick. Rachel was 6.5 and cole was 3.14... or pi. I don't remember Amanda's number and i don't think Tara had one.

We went out on the boat. Just the 6 of us and Number 2 drove. The lake was really pretty. It looked alot like cherokee lake and one of the coolest sites was the power plant that was right on the coast. Those cooling towers are massive!!!

We spent the whole day out. We went out around noonish and came back around 5:30 or 6.

Number 2 drove us over to a Rope swing to jump off of. I swam there with the intentions of maybe doing it and i fell... that is where the gash on my chest came from. I fell... really really sharp rocks too. . . So i fell climbing up the rocks. And i didn't really fall. I slipped and scatched my chest. That picture up there isn't my chest, that is a google image search of "Chest Wound" = ) I held the Rope fo a while, thinking about going down. I never did it. I enjoy a rush... but man i am a pussy. Yea rachel and tara both did it. Depending where you help the rope and how far up the hill you climbed the drop was anywhere from 30 to 75 feet... off the edge of incredibly jagged cliffs.

We wakeboarded for a little while. This was my first time.
It was alot of fun, I fell the first few times. not that hard. held on for a while my last time. I got tired, let go, then then came around a picked me up. my legs were sooo tired. Rachel tried it next and got up the first time.











When we were done the sun was going down and john floored it back to the docks. I sat on the front of the boat. It was windy and cold but it looked really cool, the water was so smooth and there was absolutly no one on the lake.

We ate at Acropolis
It was delicious.

we saw Stick It It was corny and kinda dumb. But it was still funny and a good movie. The girl was hot and that is that.

We went back to amanda's and crashed, ate some cookies, ate a buncha other food. Played with a wheelchair. played bandu, and played a fast paced crazy game of ping pong with 3 balls and 2 fribees. Then at 3am Cole and 13(2 and 11) tried to sleep in a queen size bed together. Needless to say... at 4 we heard amanda's dad walking around upstairs. at 4:30 cole got out of bed and slept on the couch. It was nonstop laugher and i think number 2 wanted to play the DutchMasters.

DutchMaster?
So john found these games and he saw a box that said "the Dutchmasters" well he thought it was a board game about pilgrams. which would be a really funny board game. So i kept refering to the dutchmasters for the next 24 hours.

We woke up, ate some breakfast and came back. Cole, amanda, rachel, and i stopped at wal-mart in k-town. We parked and got out of the car. Then this dude walked up to cole and started talking to him. . . Rachel hid behind me, cole stared at him and amanda talked on the phone and payed no attention. I was trying to understand the guy and protect rachel. The guy grabbed coles arm and mumbled some more. Cole said "uhhh no" and we all walked away.

Here are some pics!