To put a great ending to Spring Break, 3 of my best traveling buddies & I made our second trip to Nashville (TN, not AR :). We left Thursday morning and drove straight to the famous Pancake Pantry for lunch. We tried to eat there last year, but the lines were always too long. Our timing this time was perfect! We waited about 60 seconds, and that was just because I requested our family's favorite waitress, Mary. We met her in 2002 when Micah was a freshman at Vanderbilt (sweet brag :) and have talked with her many times. Again this time, she remembered and asked about everyone in our family, including our foster daughter! And Mary is 70+ years old/young! We all loved the pancakes and fixin's and Mary's company.
Much of our Nashville trip was planned around meals. We often shared meals so we could be hungry enough for the next culinary treat. Thursday's dinner was planned around...
16. Line dancing with friends at Wild Horse (Saloon)!
We arrived at Wild Horse, waited about 10 minutes for a table, claimed our seats and went straight to the dance floor for a line dancing lesson! Let it be known that:
-the 4 of us are glaringly Baptist when it comes to dancing,
-per our pre-nup, there will be NO video posting proof of this activity,
-we ALL had great fun!!! And the early-hour patrons were sweet daddies dancing with their babies, sweet older couples slow dancing, & well-behaved families :) So I think even our preacher would approve!
We also visited Bicentennial Park. We heard just a little of the carillons, ringing out "Tennessee Waltz" and had our picture taken by a nice gentleman that posted it on his Bicentennial Park website. We were a little leary... but it turned out to be legit.
Friday included a self-tour of the Parthenon, with its amazing 42-foot tall golden Athena statue. It is located in the Centennial Park, which had gorgeous tulips, Canadian geese, and general beautiful-ness.
Next meal- lunch at Monell's. You share a table with a total of up to 12 people and eat family style, passing to the left :) Our fellow diners were a couple & their 1-yr old adorable daughter, from California, and a couple (he had great dreds, or however you spell that...) from Nashville. He was hilarious & kept us grinning and lol-ing.
The afternoon was a bus tour of Nashville & country stars' homes. Yes, we were total tourists! Our tour guide was a speech pathologist's nightmare! He talked really loud and felt little need to pronounce all syllables or sounds of words. He really seemed to like "Kelly Pick(l)er. Kelly Picker. Kelly Picker." And he put the emPHAsis on strange sylLAbles, like "Nash-VEEL" and stange vowels, like "NISS-san." We did see some nice houses. And Martina McBryde's cute VW Beetle. And the "Tar-jhay" where Nicole Kidman shops with her kids. Thanks to Groupon, we did not pay full price for this treat.
Dinner at Cheesecake Factory, a first for a few of us.
Saturday we visited the town square of Franklin TN. Very nice place. Did a little shopping in cute shops. And, of course, ate again! At a quaint little place with pies with meringue about 6 inches tall.
And my favorite adventure of the whole trip... see next post!
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