Weekend

We had a really good weekend. Friday hubby and I drove up to Nashville. We checked in to the Country Inns & Suites and had a nap. That evening we drove over to the Opryland Hotel. (We stayed there during our honeymoon and I have since decided it is better to stay elsewhere and visit. The rooms are overpriced and small and not altogether fitting a hotel of that level. You pay for the elegance and ambiance of the grand hotel which you can experience by visiting.) We walked around in the gardens inside the atrium and then had dinner at the Cascades restaurant. It was like dining outside only with air conditioning. The waterfalls made excellent background buffering and we also enjoyed some instrumental music. We had an excellent dinner. (The highlight for me was the Crab Soup.) After dinner we strolled the gardens some more and took a flatboat ride on the "Delta River" inside the hotel. We drove over to the Opry Mills Mall and I was very disappointed. The mall was warm and very crowded and filled mostly with the upscale stores of which I rarely visit. But now I've been to the well-known shopping destination and know that I'm not missing anything.

Saturday we visited the Lane Motor Museum. It is a large collection of mostly foreign cars including an impressive amount of micro-cars. We returned home Saturday in time for a nap before the kids arrived home.