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More Kayaking on the Toccoa • 10.16.09

having finally decided on a job (i ended up taking the american express offer instead of the job at nasco. it was a VERY difficult decision with one representing more long term certainty and the other more short term opportunity and freedom. i took the opp and freedom over the certainty…..hope i still think that’s a good choice 3 years from now) drew and i headed up to blue ridge for a day. we headed up thursday night to his cabin and then went out kayaking on the toccoa river the next morning, then played some golf at Whitepath golf course in Ellijay. the river was great that morning, and the golf course is a pretty interesting layout. we had a great time kayaking and on the golf course, with drew shooting 1 over on the front side.
it was a beautiful morning on the water with fog still clinging to the mountain.
drew is part monkey. he brought the most bruised up bananas i’ve ever seen out on the river with us. it was like someone shoved pudding inside of a banana peel.
here we are at the end of the run just up river from the bridge there. not a bad morning commute.

and here’s a little video of drew ripping the water up

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Bama v Arkansas and Lake Tuscaloosa • 09.27.09

lil and i headed over to tuscaloosa for the weekend to catch the bama v arkansas game and to let lillis have one more weekend of waterskiing. we hopped in the car and headed over saturday morning (after lillis got done teaching her yoga class). we got in in time to spend a couple of hours over at rocky’s (newly remodeled and very fancy) house before hoppin’ in the golf cart to head over to the game. game was probably one of the less exciting blowouts i’ve witnessed with the tide as we never really did get the offense rolling, but we had a great time anyway. lillis didn’t even get sleepy until the 4th quarter!
here are holly and jason and i right around kickoff.
and here jason and i celebrate an early score….
before lillis and i got our picture taken.
jason and i met frank out later that night and had a good evening at innisfree. the next morning, i headed up to mcdonalds to retrieve some breakfast for lil and then we headed out on the lake. here’s a pic of holly’s dad’s lakehouse from the boat.

michael was giving lillis some kind of directions here.

and lillis took my picture while i tried to stall before getting back in the water, exhausted from my first run.

below is a rather longish video that only lillis will probably watch, but if you don’t watch it (but did read this) just know that my wakeboarding skills are slowly improving. oh, and bama has improved to 4 and 0 with kentucky coming up this weekend. roll tide! my next game will be bama v ut in a few weeks.

Skiing Lake Tuscaloosa Sep ’09 from charles breland on Vimeo.

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lake tuscaloosa trip • 08.08.09

skiing is lil’s favorite thing in the world. soooo, i packed up the car (with everything except her skis – which we forgot) and we headed over to tuscaloosa to get her out on the water for the weekend. we went out skiing both saturday and sunday AM….AND went out for a late night boat ride on saturday night. so, we had plenty of time on the lake over the weekend. we were all pretty exhausted by the end of the weekend on sunday, but it was well worth it. below, is will, pooped after a day of exhorting us as we skied, and a (rather long) video of the weekend.

Will Looks Wistful

Will Looks Wistful

i’m still working on catching more air on the wake, but we’re getting better. oh, and i’m sure lillis would like the record to reflect that the choppiness of the waters impacted her ability to shred behind the boat.

tuscaloosa ski trip aug, 09 from charles breland on Vimeo.

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