Friend, and former coworker of mine, Louise has been bugging me to come to Nashville for years. Literally. So I finally decided to do it! Mitch had never been there and it seemed like a cool place to check out and added a minimal amount of extra time and mileage. It meant taking the short sides of a triangle rather than the hypotenuse. Worth it.
Nashville is a cool place, like I was promised. It is also very hot and humid. But it's the south, so I guess that's par for the course. We got in Saturday evening and decided to hit the town. We headed down to Broadway, the main stretch of bars, clubs, etc. It is a sight to see. So much neon! I did not expect that.
Our first stop was BBQ. It was an excellent decision. I do love southern BBQ. And Mac and cheese! I could go without the sweet tea everywhere though. I'm by no means a sugar hater, but sweet tea is too much. But back to Nashville... After we were throughly satiated, we walked along Broadway. There truly is live music everywhere. Every single bar has a stage and tons of buskers line the streets. Luckily Louise is a Nashville pro, and married to a musician, so she guided us well. We took on one of her favorite bands at a little bar that wasn't horribly crowded. And they were excellent! They sang a mix of their original music and classic country covers. I'll admit, I didn't know all the covers, but I liked them anyway. I even convinced Midxh to dance, albeit quite briefly, while they played. He was much more interested in watching their stand up bassist- who was incredible.
We wandered a bit more, saw where the Opry used to be, and counted well over 20 different bachelorette parties with various matching tank tops, dresses, and sashes. Apparently Nashville is the place to go if you are getting married.
The next day we met up with my cousin Chelsea who is finishing her degree as a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt. We explored some more of the town; got amazing ice cream floats at The Parlor- mine was cream soda and moose tracks ice cream. Then we saw the Parthenon. Because there is one of those in Nashville- the reason is some sort of fair that happened a long time ago, but the important part is that there is a Parthenon in Tennessee. We saw the giant golden Athena inside, holding a small Nike. And the park it's all located it in was also a Poke Stop. Chelsea has been a Pokemon fan for decades so she was happy to catch a few and I marveled at the mass of people looking for them. Mitch was happy because he got the largest cotton candy anyone has ever seen.
After that we decided to cool off in the air conditioning of the Opry Land hotel. It's huge! It was once the largest non-gaming hotel in America. It has a river complete with a boat in it, dozens of restaurants, a color coded map, convention center, and hotel rooms that over look it all (inside). It was impressive to wander around and a good way to conclude our very quick Nashville trip.
We made a new friend.
Sometimes you match your soda straw... Love at first sip!
Selfie with Chelsea
That is a giant gold woman.
A giant ball of sugar!
Poke hunters
This is indoors at the Opryland hotel. I repeat, this is inside!
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