SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNEESSE

ok this blog post was typed out like a dunno how many weeks ago when i just got back from camping. haha i realized i need to type it out straight away if not i will forget. see what happened to alaska and seattle. i wonder when i will ever blog about it man.. hahaha and waiting for photos just isnt going to work cos i think royston will only upload them after we get back to singapore. hahaha. but poor boy. he got so many photos to upload and filter. wished i could help but i think i ll prob destroy his photos hahaa.

tada.here it is.

HELLO I JUST GOT BACK FROM THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS!! OMG HAHA short 2 day 1 night camping trip at the mountains. how cool is that. When in Rome, do what the Romans do, so when in US, do what the Americans do. And the americans do camping as part of the leisure activity. So i kinda like this exchange really alot cos u get to do what the americans really do, live abit like them and just experience their lifestyle and culture. Smoky moutains was really nice though the scenic loop drive was closed and we missed some parts of the scenery but the whole camping experience was really fun. And it's just funny how the trips that we plan and expect the most usually dont turn out as much as we expected as compared to the trips that u think wont be as fun but turn out exceptionally fun, for example, savannah, this camping trip and miami. But nonetheless all the trips were fun la. I wished this would just carry on forever haha.

This drive up the campsite reminded me of the drive up mount rainier but this was abit special cos there's a small stream just next to the roads and woww i saw water flowing in the stream..damn nice...just gushing down. i wished i took a photo but the camera was stuck in the bag buried deep in the trunk (the americans call it trunk not boot, so when in america, must speak trunk not boot) *peck, take this advice mannnn hahaha u owe me lunch. i tell you all the american lingo, confirm when u come here, they ll sure think wow u must have lived here for long or u some cool asian dude here k. muahahahahah. oh mann...

so here's one koped from google images
we were basically driving next to this kind of streams..

cooking in dark, barbeque, setting up a cui campfire, drinking hot hot horlicks in the cold cold weather and hiding in the tent with maggi mee in the pot like how koreans do and just chatting and laughing away was just damn shiok. really cool weekend gateway. i wished u all could trip it.. but freaking hell it was freezing in the night, i couldnt sleep la. the cold totally woke me up then i saw vic sleeping so soundly, wondering whether i was the only cold weird one. haha the next morning everyone said they felt cold they woke up they tossed and turned but everyone thought everyone slept soundly and comfortably hahaa. cool experience la..

the best part of the trip was that i really felt i was in TENNESSEE, LIKE REALLY RIGHT IN THE SOUTH. haha oh and megan fox came from tennessee. went with my favourite friend to buy firewood, ice and some special matchhead at the local petrol kiosk station and the guy spoke with the cool southern accent hhaha..KASSTY SOH! u were just talking bout the southern accent the other day rite and omggg i heard it like LIVE from a southerner. haha cool shit la.. then he offered to help us load the firewood into the TRUNK and said "this is all about the southern hospitality" in his southern accent hahaha..and he konichiwa-ed me haha prob thinks we are japs. oh mann then the women i noticed around all have the southern countryside hairstyle, curly and big big bao zha head like that and the american teenagers just sat on the back of the truck..it just feels like i'm really in the south. I used to watch like sweet home alabama, hannah montana (haha it was filmed in tennessee) and see those southern countryside living on screen, now i really saw it like real life haha. Oh man the green green meadows with smoky mountain as backdrop and horses grazing on the green green meadows are like woww.. picture perfect scenery man..lotsa stables around but sadly i have no idea how to do horseback riding. weather was perfect too..oh man.. i thought it looked like a nice place to retire in the countryside.haha.

sighhh...dont have that feeling even atlanta is like south too..and according to what chubs say it's like the empire of the south..how come so different ah.. i wished i could go texas too ..then i can really say i combed the north south east west of america. i want to eat their bar-b-q la..i saw food wars on tv in alaska and oh mannnn i think i would just melt if i could place KRUEZ & SMITTY MARKET meat in my mouth. sighhh...

oh and the next best thing, i went ZORBING. it's like the only one in US and the longest in the world. there's only another shorter one in New zealand i think. and oh mann hell lotsa fun...really alot of my first times in US. haha oh zorbing is is the recreation of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of transparent plastic. I did the zydro zorbing which has water in the ball. cool shit i tell u..hahah damn fun i wished i moved more in the ball though like roll over victoria or do sth crazy haha it cost 36 bucks for a short 45 seconds down the slope? but it's the longest in the world soo nothing to complain..wished i could do it again though hahah

and i had a fattening buffet afterthat...deserts overload..i could feel my tummy and the spare tire surrounding my waist omg.. and i had a presentation the next day that i had to worry bout fitting into my working skirt. oh am gee...sighhh how am i evre gonna lose all the weight...

and do u know 4hour rides in cars are actually very bearable. haha i used to feel damn sian n tired after driving in spore for 1 hour like when u get stuck in jam etc. but 4 hours now is like ok leh..and while driving non stop for 3 hours in seward, it didnt really feel like 3 hours actually.. haha maybe cos we had a grreat time getting chubbo to recognize and rmb who tavia yeung is ..damn funny conversation la.. hahaha tvb dramas u are next aft i conquer my korean one hahah it was sooo funny la...we had to think of other dramas and link this character to another to help her and when she finally got it, it was phewwww hahahha fun shit oh mann i'm just loving every minute in tennessee..