Tennessee Watersports

Andrea showing how its done on the type of skis not typically featured on this blog

This past weekend we took a little mid-summer trip down to Tennessee. It was hot and HUMID, so we spent a lot of time on the water. The first order of business was water-skiing, which is a forte of Andrea's family. For me... not so much. I had never tried it before, and ended up w/ a pretty nasty (and painful) muscle spasm (and never actually got up on the skis). I'll stick to snow skis, thank you very much! But I had a great time hanging out on the boat and watching everyone else in action.

In addition to water-skiing, we also went rafting on the Ocoee River. The weather provided a dramatic backdrop on that adventure, as we spent about half of the rafting trip in a full blown thunder/lightning storm!

Overall, a great trip! It was nice to get out of SLC for a long weekend... although I have to say that the dry heat felt pretty good when we got off the plane this morning!


Andrea's Dad going one handed


Andrea's uncle Craig is pretty darn smooth on water skis


Andrea's brother Alex


Andrea again


When it comes to water-skiing... I'm better at just hanging out on the boat!


Relaxing on the pontoon boat


Our raft group


Our entire group and the guides