Showing posts with label Ryman Auditorium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ryman Auditorium. Show all posts

Monday, 21 November 2016

Nashville Trip (Day 3)

A sign of things to come, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum...
and the Bridgestone Arena...
aka SMASHVILLE!!!  ;-)
Here's the Ryman Auditorium from outside.
The Printers Alley.
Butler's Run.  :-)
We came across a Rotary Club meeting with a bunch of the state's dignitaries!
After a little siesta, we walked over to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum 
It's actually connected to our hotel!
Posing with my babe's stuff.
I love Taylor Swift!  :-)
A car?!?
It's the 1980 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am from "Smokey and the Bandit II"!
There's my girl!
She's contributed so much to this place.
Damn!
Look at all the records.
Damn!!!
Oh wow, a golden piano!
Holy shit, it's Elvis' car!  It even had a little TV inside the back!
But look at this guy's car.
It was decorated with so many guns!  Haha!
 Sun Life Global Investments gave us all a free tour of the museum, but now it was time for the festivities!
These are the girls responsible for all the events at this year's symposium.
They did a great job!
After enjoying some food and drinks, Mike and I walked across the street to watch the Nashville Predators play...
and fight the Tampa Bay Lightning!
The Preds won tonight's game by a score of 3-1!!!
Back to we went to the SLGI event.  We arrived just in time to watch Richie McDonald sing a few songs!  "Amazed" was one of them.  :-)
We even got to meet the former lead singer of Lonestar and he gave us all an autographed CD!
We continued our night by dancing at Barlines.
Pondered our next destination,
walked over to Tootsies and danced with Bethany.  We found out tonight that we had a bunch of mutual friends back home!  Haha!
Katrina and I also tore-up dance floor here!
It was indeed a fun night!  :-)

Saturday, 19 November 2016

Nashville Trip (Day 1)

Mike had another business conference out in Nashville this week, so he asked me if I wanted to tag along.  Since it fell on my hiatus, I said, "Sure!"  :-)
Along the way, we had a layover in Houston for a few hours...
and I tried some Crispy Fried Alligator at a Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen!  It was actually really good.  :-)
We finally reached our desitiny, the Omni Nashville Hotel!  :-)
Right away, we hit the Honky Tonk Highway!
It's always filled with tons of tourists, so their intersections allow diagonal crossings for pedestrians!  ;-)
There's so much food and entertainment here...
like The Don Kelly Band here at Robert's Western World!
And they're just one of many bands constantly playing around this city!
That's my girl!  I went back to our hotel to try to sleep-off my headache from the flight over.
After a couple hours of rest, I walked back to Robert's...
and then walked over to the Ryman Auditorium for the Grand Ole Opry!
They go through so many performers in one show!  Each of them do two acts and then they're done.
This singer Brooke Eden stole my heart though!  She's going to be the next big thing to come out of Nashville   ;-)