Motorhome Trip - Nashville and Memphis

Nashville

  

 No one was playing at the Grand Ole Opry House when we were there, and we also had the kids, but it would have been fun to go to a show.  Carrie Underwood was playing a few days after we left.

It was beautiful to walk around inside the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.

Hatch Show print has been around since 1879 and is one of the oldest working letterpress print shops in America.  Each print is created using the same technique with wood carved blocks just like in 1879.  They would print posters for all the events in town, including lots of country music artists playing at the famous Ryman Auditorium below.

These Goo Goo Clusters were so good, and now that we're home we found a place that sells them close by!

We walked around Music City, and it was very busy.  The CMT awards were starting in just a couple of days, so people were setting up stages and getting ready.

 Niels in every city.  He would sit down when he didn't want to walk or be in the stroller.

 These gourmet popsicles were delicious.  We bought strawberry lime, Mexican caramel, avocado, cantaloupe, and mango. 

 We ate at the Pancake Pantry which was near Vanderbilt University.  It was a recommendation by Taylor Swift and many other people, but it was just OK.  I had the sweet potato pancakes, and they were pretty good.

Memphis

 Christopher told us that he really enjoyed the National Civil Rights Museum, so we were excited to go to it, but it was closed they day we went.  We still got to walked around outside though and see the motel where Martin Luther King was shot and killed.  They also had buttons you could push and it would tell you more about the history.  Hazel had learned about him in school, so she was really excited to see it.  It was definitely a highlight of our trip.

Memphis is known for it's BBQ, so we had to try some.  

 We had so much fun at the Louisville Slugger tour, we tried to go on a tour at the Gibson Factory, but tickets were sold out.  You had to be 5 and older so Brendan and Hazel were going to go together on a little date and she was so excited, so when they didn't get tickets she was very disappointed!