A Night in Nashville

Russ and I got back last week from a visit to Alabama to visit his family. We had a great time. (More pictures of that visit to come.) But when we flew in, Russ and I flew in to the Nashville airport, which is a little over an hour away from Russ' house. We were excited for the opportunity to visit Nashville a little before we headed to Alabama. One of the places we visited was the Opryland Hotel. One of the first words that comes to mind to describe it is, ENORMOUS! It is basically like if someone put the Riverwalk in San Antonio into a building. It has shops, restaurants, hotel rooms and even a river, within the hotel. We had fun looking at all of the lights and sights inside the hotel and were getting ready to head to Alabama, when all of the sudden Russ' sneaky family surprised us with a hotel key! Turns out one of our Christmas presents was a night at the hotel. It was an amazing present to say the least. We had such a fun time and thanks again to the Browns for all their plotting, scheming and thoughtfulness. Below are some of the pictures of our visit in Nashville.

Since it was Christmastime the hotel was decorated with what they said was something like 2 million lights. You can also see some of the rooms in the background.

Here is a Christmas tree in the hotel. It was huge!

We went on a riverboat ride inside the hotel. I had been on riverboat rides before, but this was the first one inside.

Us in the Opryland Hotel. We had been traveling that day so that's why we look so rough.



Logan and Ruth-Anne (Russ' brother and sister.)

The view from our room. And yes, we were inside!

Since Nashville is called "Music City" they have a street , called Broadway, where there are tons of little clubs and shops that have live music just about all day. It kind of reminded us of 6th street in Austin. It was cool.



See if you can spot Elvis.

Cool old building in downtown Nashville.

We also visited the Country Music Hall of Fame.

We figured while we were in the area we would stop by our old friend Miley's house, some of you may know her by her stage name, Hannah Montana. We found out where she lives and took a visit to what is known as "Singing Hills Farm." We couldn't pass up taking a creepy picture of their front gate. (Notice that even celebrities are sometimes too lazy to pick up the newspaper.)