Nashville, TN

This past weekend Stephen and I went to Nashville, TN. We had a great time and it was so nice to have time for just the two of us to be selfish and be alone again. We hit all the tourist stops. Our legs hurt so bad from walking so much (kinda pathetic I know). Once we got to our hotel and checked out our love nest (haha) for the weekend we got ready to hit the town. We went to a very cool restaurant called The Aquarium. In the middle of of restaurant there is a huge salt water fish tank!!! All of the table are positioned so that we all have perfect view of the tank. Stephen asked me if I was finished and I said "yea" then I looked down to see that I had only ate a few pieces of shrimp. I was amazed and I wasn't even thinking about eating. I took several pictures because I wanted to be able to share how neat this place was to us.

After we finished our dinner, across from the restaurant was a huge sting ray tank. Once you get in they give you shrimp to feed the sting rays and you can touch them while feeding them (sorta like a petting zoo). We had plans for the both of us to feed/touch these sting rays. WELL, when I saw those things jumping up and splashing water at everyone else.......I was out. They totally freaked me out. You couldn't stand anywhere near the tanks or they thought you wanted to feed them so they would jump up and actually spit water at you. Okay I have to tell this story. While I was taking pictures of Stephen feeding the sting rays, there was a women there and she was getting soaked by letting these nasty things spit water and splash water all over her!!!! GROSS!

I hope she didn't have plans afterwards.

After dinner went down town to hit all the bars including Coyote Ugly!! After being out for a while we headed back to the hotel to crash.

We slept in til 10:30 that next morning and went downstairs to the breakfast buffet in our PJ's!! We had no cares in the world. I didn't feel so bad when I saw that other people were down there as well in their PJ's.

We decided to go to The Hermitage. This is where Andrew Jackson Lived. Beautiful plantation. I think this was my favorite part of our trip. We had headphones that guided us and gave us neat information along the way. I enjoyed learning about our history and even imaged how it would have been to live in those days.

After the Hermitage we went to a famous Bar B Que joint called Jack's. UMMMMM. Very good!

We spend more time at the Hermitage then we thought and didn't have enough time to go through the Country Hall of Fame so we spent more time down town before we went back to the hotel to get ready for the Grand Ol Opry.

Our hotel not only had a huge breakfast buffet, they also had free drinks and a guy that played the guitar for two hours in the evening. So we hung out at the hotel for two hours and met some people from Kentucky.

The Grand Ol Opry was planned for saturday night and we were soo excited. Both of us had never been there before. There was only two people there that night that we knew of (joe diffie and Buddy Jewel) but it was still very cool to be there.

Since we didn't get to go to the Country Hall of Fame on saturday we went on Sunday morning befoer we came home. Again very neat place to see all of the history of country music.

All in all we had a great time. It is so nice to be able to get away and to have "us time". Everyday is always about Sydney and as it should be so it's nice to be selfish and take time to renew our relationship and let loose!!!

Thank you to my sister holly for keeping Sydney so we could have this time.

Sydney's prize that we brought back was a tamborine!! She loved it.