Nashville!!

In planning our new 'annual race/family' trip….we picked Nashville, TN this year! Josh and his Dad love to run races.  Last year we all went to Savannah for the Rock n Roll 1/2….so to start a new tradition, we looked up races in the southeast in November (we also celebrate Josh' November birthday)….we picked the Hard Rock 1/2 Marathon in Nashville this past weekend. We left Evelyn with my parents and drove west!  We spent Thursday night in Knoxville and headed to Nashville Friday morning. After picking up their race packets, we went downtown to the 'honky tonk' district! We had a delicious lunch at Puckett's Grocery then went to the Ryman Auditorium and toured the Country Music Hall of Fame! We were not disappointed! The CMA Awards had just been two days before so there was still a lot of 'buzz' in the city!

That night we attempted to go to the famous Bluebird Cafe but the line was way too long to wait with kiddos so maybe another time!  Saturday morning, it was race time! Josh had a personal record of 1:33.56! I was so proud of him! Grandpa Jeff did really well too! He cut 30 minutes off his time from last year! The girls made posters and we rang bells for them as we cheered them on at the finish line!

we also 'semi stalked' taylor swift on this trip. We had a feeling she would be in town b/c of the CMA awards…turned out that her apartment building was two blocks from our hotel! The first afternoon, we decided to ride by her building and her mom was pulling out in her white Range Rover! I was pointing at her and she was laughing at me! There were others in the car but we couldn't tell who they were! We didn't see her but saw her mom so the girls were excited! Our concierge told us that when she is in town that she lights up a tree in her penthouse and we saw it lit every night! You could  see her place from our hotel window so I found Lucy in our windowsil a lot!

we had a great time! I really liked Nashville! Think I could even live there except that it is too far from the coast!!! I hope we can go back soon! It was fun, but I was glad to come home to this: