We had a chance to go to Nashville earlier last month with my brother and sister in law and we had a blast!
Now our first instinct is to say that we had too much going on for June. But that’s taking the boring way through life right? So we said we were in and packed our bags! Let the good times begin!!
Well I should also say that I hate using vacation days. I mean I have some to use, but jeepers you just never know when you’ll absolutely need them. So we left after work on a Thursday and headed south. Literally.
My brother drove and we ended up the night within a few hours of Nashville, or just on the other side of St. Louis. The hotel that we picked was one of the first ones on the side of the road and it turned out just fine. When we got up in the morning we knew that we’d be in Nashville after noon sometime. Check out the fun car that we saw when heading out for something to eat. We scoped out the restaurant to see if we could find the guy – or girl, who was driving it. Never did find the right person, but there sure some characters that could have fit the bill. 
And guess what? Well we did make it to our next hotel in no time and with luck on our side we ended up in the newly remodeled part of it. I mean I swear no one had even been in there before. It was like when you got a new car and the smell of it being new is something that is very noticeable. The cords were all still hooked together. Yea, pretty cool!
Now to scope out the town. We had a shuttle bus for the weekend from our hotel so no driving for us for the weekend 🙂
Well a trip downtown to see the sights and boy we tried to fit it all in. From visiting the new Grand Ole Opry 
to stopping in at the Ryman Auditorium
for a matinee. We saw the following performers: Riders In The Sky, Margo Price, Exile, Mo Pitney Jamie Lynn Spears, The Whites, Kristian Bush, And Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers.
What a line up right? When when we wanted a tour they said that there wasn’t any tours with the matinee going on and I’m sure glad that we chose the matinee.
Now you can’t be in Nashville without checking out the Honky Tonks. And there are sure a lot of those type of bars here. Just one of the things that I learned this weekend is that there are so many levels in each bar and each level had a band. What fun! I also learned to never go out of the bar without your phone or your ID. You will not get back in so easy! 
Then the weekend was over way too soon and back home we went.
Now honestly we really need to do this type of weekend more often!