Nashville

We set up camp here in Lebanon, TN just outside of Nashville on Sunday and spent the day watching football game after football game. First Tennessee/Denver, then Eagles/Redskins, and finally Giants/Bears. The only game that really mattered, I’m sure you all will agree, was Eagles/Redskins. OMG what a heart breaker. Did the Eagles have to loose to McNabb? They didn’t loose to the Redskins, they lost to McNabb. Heads are hanging low.

That was yesterday – today is another day and we are going to Music City. The ATT building is known around here as the Batman Building. It does look like Batman doesn’t it?   Bicentennial Park is a lovely park.  The history of Tennessee is etched all along the granite walls. Quite pretty. Next to the park is a huge Farmers Market. The mums and pumpkins were plentiful as well as all of the fruits and veggies you could ask for. Across the road and up on the hill is the Capital Building. In place of a dome is a structure that was built to look like a lantern. Do you know how much the city paid for the property the Capital sits on? Any guess? They bought it for one milk cow. The people who sold the property was poor and needed a milk cow. They thought the property was worthless being up on a hill with plenty of rock. So they were very happy with a milk cow. What a deal.

Nashville has a free bus system to get you around center city, so we jumped on the blue line and headed uptown to music row. In other cities we have taken a bus tour to get more details about the town and today we took the trolley tour. The tour took us all over town, up music row, over to the writing and recording area,          and then to Parthenon. It was a good tour, gave us our baring for the city. When we were buying a tickets for the tour, Tommy saw a guy wearing a Phillies hat. Being the quiet shy guy that he is, he started a conversation. They told us that they had tickets to a Keith Urban, Allan Jackson, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, and John Mayer concert for tomorrow night (10/5) at Bridgestone Arena.        Wow what a line up! Since the concert hall was just a few blocks away and we had 1/2 hour before the tour, we scooted right up there. We did not expect tickets to be available. Well… Woot Woot! We have tickets! I usually don’t like floor seats but when they said the 6th row center, I said sold! A concert in Nashville!

After the tour we walked around music row and the music was spilling out and onto the streets. Honky Tonk after honky tonk the music filled the air.       We had to go into  Legends and Tootsies. Lots of history in those buildings and lots of people got their start on those stages. The band playing in Legends was sooo good.   There were plenty of musicians playing on the street as well. Tommy had to get into the act…. I wonder if he has a chance of being discovered? He doesn’t sing or play the guitar but he looks really good! Fun day in Nashville. And guess what … we get to do some more of the same tomorrow!