Tuesday, April 05, 2005
This past weekend I vanished out of the state of Georgia with only Kenneth, Matt, and maybe a few others knowing where I was going. Matt and I went up to Asheville, NC to visit Kenneth. We froze a little bit in the rain and had a little fun. When we drove around the town I had fun looking at the roads. There are a lot of crazy twists and exits that you have to take. It is such that if you aren't familiar with the area, you could easily become confused or stressed trying to drive in it, but riding in it with someone that knows the area feels like you are riding on a roller coaster because of all of the decisions made so rapidly. Kenneth showed me around his campus and I couldn't understand why it was that Matt had felt so attached to his family that he didn't want to stay up there. The entire campus is secluded off up a road through woods. It is like they picked a random spot in the middle of the forest in the mountains a bit off from the town, snuck in, and cleared the entire area in secret. It has such a wild feel to it because you'll walk and see campus buildings or fields and then just forest starting just beyond it as if the forest is trying to swallow the campus right up. We went out to eat and got to have a bit of fun at Matt's expense when he spilled his ice cream all over the table and we nullified his protests about its texture and whatnot by reminding him that for several years he has been working in an ice cream shop. We bought alcohol but didn't end up having too much of it. The first night was a little killed in that regard because the Watermelon Smirnoff Twists didn't really taste that great to either Kenneth or me (Matt won't drink). The second night Kenneth had enough to have some fun flopping around like a fish trying to walk around on its tail but I had a little headache and refrained from having too much. I also discovered that the smirnoff twists taste a lot sweeter than I remembered them tasting and I didn't care for that too much. I may need to find a new drink for the occasions that I actually drink.