Hayley

On the 17th we left for Chattanooga, Tennessee with a 15 passenger van and 9 people. 6 and a half hours in the car can get VERY boring and you can get tired of the people you are with. Overall the car ride was fine and we did not get too tired of each other. When we arrived on Tuesday afternoon we went to Raccoon Mountain. We took a tour of the Cave and panned for gemstones. Then we hung out the rest of the night downtown where I lost my phone rolling down a hill. Don’t worry though I found it a little later. On Wednesday we swam in the morning then at about 11:00 we went to an amusement park called Lake Winnie. That was a lot of fun! Then on Thursday we went to the Ocoee River and kayaked the entire day. Our guides were awesome. They knew so much about the area and its past. The hardest part was when it was all over and we were dead tired. We had to drag our kayaks up a hill. That was not fun! Overall the trip was amazing. I had so much fun and learned a lot. I highly recommend to go to Chattanooga for any kind of trip.

This Saturday is my sister’s 10th birthday. Then on Sunday, that’s my 14th birthday. Pretty cool huh. Well on Thursday my grandfather came in to town from Brandon, Mississippi and we all went to the Redbirds game. So today granddaddy took me and my sister to eat for our birthday. We were allowed to pick wherever we wanted to go, so we picked Bahama Breeze. After we finished eating we went down to the fairgrounds were he used to be the fair manager. Then he showed us were he stayed when he lived here and where he walked and what stores he had been to. Today was an awesome day and I am glad I got to spend it with granddaddy.