Below are some pictures of our recent weekend spent with friends in "Music City!" Damon and Brenda drove up from Atlanta and met us there for the weekend. We had so much fun and fell in love with the city. On any given day at any given time you can pretty much find really talented music artists playing just about everywhere. We visited the Country Music Hall of Fame, walked through Music Row, saw many different bands, visited the infamous Bluebird Cafe and even ended up partying with a country music celebrity one night! (you'll see who in the photos below) It was a blast and I know we will go back!
Elvis' gold piano in the Country Music Hall of Fame
The Country Music Hall of Fame walls are covered in these Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum records. It was amazing to see how many albums these artists have sold.
The Boys
Cheers!
The Girls
Brenda and Damon
Inside our hotel looking down at Todd from the 6th floor
Our hotel, which was the old Union Train Station... it was very quaint and full of history. We would highly recommend this place to stay. It's also in the heart of downtown Nashville and within walking distance to all the night life.
We must have walked what seemed lik 100 miles one day just checking out the city.
Damon getting a little happy :)
One night while at a bar watching a band, Cowboy Troy walked in and ended up standing and partying right next to us. We talked to him and promised to catch his show the next time he plays in Tampa. He was a really nice guy and very happy to take photos with his fans. It was a fun treat!
Having lunch one day at a place called the Flying Saucer. They had like 300 beers on tap and our favorite item on the menu was their hot Belgian Pretzel with warm queso for dipping. YUMMM! They came out piping hot and melted in your mouth. Our waitress here was from Tampa as well and moved to Nashville for the music industry. It seemed like everyone we talked to was there to make it in the music industry. There really was so much great talent!
If you are not familiar with this place you have to look it up online and check out it's history. It is a small restaurant type place with a stage and a bar where only invited artists may perform original songs acoustically. They are all singer/songwriters. They only have 21 tables and on the night we went it was first come first serve. We waited outside about half an hour before getting a perfect little table. They have a very long list of huge country music names that have performed in this place before making it big. They also have open mic night, which many places in Nashville do, but we didn't go that night.
