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Honeymoon in Nashville

Kory and I took the week between semesters for our real honeymoon. We took off Monday and arrived in Nashville that afternoon. It was cloudy and rainy. We went to our condo, provided by a good friend of mine, and settled in. We went to dinner at the mall nearby.

Tuesday we headed downtown and saw the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. We ate at a Thai place in The Arcade and then took a stroll across Shelby Bridge. That night we went to the Grand Ole Opry and saw a great bunch of musicians including Teri Clark and Hunter Hayes. I was impressed with Hunter...he is great on the guitar, piano, and of course singing.






























The next day we went the Nashville Zoo and then went down near Vanderbilt University and ate at the Pancake Pantry, a place I read about in my guidebook. It was yummy. That night we went to Wicked. I've seen it twice before, but this time we were on the seventh row and I could actually see the actor's faces up close. It was awesome.



Thursday we got up early and drove to Knoxville so that Kory could tour the Melaleuca plant there. We took the ladies in HR to lunch and they were fun to visit with. We did a lot of driving, but it was fun to see the countryside. There were these really pretty purple flowering trees lining the freeway. The HR ladies said that Knoxville is like the worst place for allergies in the US...or something like that.

That night we went downtown in Nashville again and watched a Bruce Springsteen concert. Neither of us are huge fans, but we thought it would be fun. I think we were both converts by the end. He played for three and a half hours with no opening number, no intermission. He is just a great performer and put on a great show. It was super fun.

Friday we took it easy. We went downtown to the Ryman Auditorium, which was one of the early sites of the Grand Ole Opry. I told Kory it looked a lot like the Salt Lake Tabernacle. In the tour they said it was one of the best acoustic halls in the US...second only to the Mormon Tabernacle. It was a fun place to visit. Then we went and found the Parthenon reconstruction downtown. Kind of quirky but fun.

That night we went on a riverboat cruise and dinner, which was a little bit of a letdown after all the great concerts of the week, but it was fine.

We headed home early the next morning and dove back into our real lives. A few times in the weekend I said, to Kory, "Remember Nashville?" It's fun to be alone once in awhile. We had a great time.

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