August2014 Road Trip: Days 23 & 24 -Nashville TN

Our new home for the next two days in Nashville is the Country Inn & Suites.  The hotel is conveniently located near the Grand Ole Opry.  We were greeted like VIP's by the staff, with our name on a plague by the front desk, a gift bag and they upgraded our FREE room to a suite!  WOW!

Our suite has king size bed, fridge and microwave along with a living area, very nice.  The staff are great, from the front desk to the breakfast crew, everyone has been super nice.

We arrived later than we expected, we had just enough time to get unpacked before getting ready for our first time at the Opry. When  I purchased our Opry tickets months ago they didn't even have anyone scheduled yet, I bought the tickets for the night that we would arrive and hoped for the best.  I was thrilled when we found out Little Big Town

and Craig Campbell would be appearing and we had great seats.  I love both of them.  The Opry Show was a great mixture of new & old country music, bluegrass & new, upcoming artists.

We visited four different film locations from the Nashville TV Show:

Rayna James' home was far out in the country behind gates so I really couldn't get good pictures.  From the front of the house you can't really get a sense of how massive this house is...

Deacon Claybourne's house, looked exactly as it does on the show:

Scarlett's house is actually located right next door to Deacon (not on the show):

The famous BlueBird was disappointing, definitely NOT what I expected it to look like.  It's a tiny little place in a strip mall.

We spent 3 hours at the Country Music Hall of Fame.  It was worth every minute.  The exhibits are amazing.

The newly added Kenny Rogers exhibit

Hubby and The King

Smoky & The Bandit

We walked to middle of the Shelby Pedestrian bridge.

 This bridge is the scene where Rayna James decides to discuss the upcoming tour with her lead guitarist Deacon Claybourne in episode 1. It is also here, where she is quoted as saying: "I need a drink…wanna walk me to Tootsies?" Great views also!

We had lunch at a small dive named Arnolds Meats and it turned out to be a great choice.

Supper was an Irish place called McNamara's Irish Pub.  Ron had his usual Sheppards Pie(he said it was just ok) and I had Bangers & Mash which I loved.

Afterwards we went to The District.  Every place had live music.  They even broadcast music on the streets via corner speakers.  We found a place we liked and stopped to listen to a singer named Kevin Denny who was really good.

Even The King was there :)

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All in All, I managed to do most of the things on my bucket list for Nashville.  I really appreciated my husband who tolerated two days of country music, he is not a fan lol.