Why I like baseball

Tonight we went to watch the Clemson/UNC baseball game. Let me introduce you to the reason why I like baseball :)

zoolander

Since this weeks theme was animals, when we drove past a sign for the Nashville Zoo, I convinced Alex to take me to the zoo before we headed home. I had a lot of fun.... I don't think he enjoyed it quite as much. I'm so lucky that I married a patient man!

I loved the Hyacinth Maccaw. Such a vibrant blue color!
Hanging around...

And that's the truth!
This would've been an awesome shot for textures week.

Camel toe...
Alpacca love
Pucker up!
Got your goat!

The most vibrant duck ever!

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And this was my favorite animal at the nashville zoo! She said and posed the whole time we were there. What a beautiful cat!

Country Made Fresh

Here are some of the pics from the drive up to Nashville and our first look at the city. There's more to come though, I promise you that.

Knoxville, TN - about halfway there and Alex's turn to drive.



Since I grew up in Cumberland County, NS, I was very excited to drive through Cumberland Co, TN. I had to grab a picture of the State Park sign in case any of my Cumb Co blog readers find it as exciting as I did (Mom - I'm thinking of you)

Now we skip to downtown Nashville. I meant to take a picture of a sign to let you know we made it, but I was navigator and I couldn't work the camera, read a map and look for road signs all at the same time. So sadly this was my first shot of downtown Nashville. It's a pretty good one though. This turned out to be a fairly educational trip. We learned some music history - though I doubt we learned as much as my brother Rob did when he took the History of Rock and Roll class at Acadia :)

I love when artists paint murals on the sides of buildings. Isn't this one cool?

Let me introduce you to the Sommet Center. Alex was DYING to go see the last regular season home game for the Nashville Predators on Thursday. Unfortunately, we didn't make it. We had already bought tickets for the NASCC honkeytonk dinner (more on that in a later post). For those who are wondering what the NASCC is - it stands for the North American Steel Conference and Convention. More on that in a later post as well....
Legends Corner. They were part of the honkeytonk conference dinner....
I fell in love with this sign. Isn't it cool?
Who knew they made country fresh?
There were a ton of people out playing on Wednesday afternoon while we were walking around. Nowhere else have I ever seen so many street musicians. They were awesome :)

Had myself a Big & Rich time!

We're back from Nashville and exhausted but I had to come on and let everyone know we survived Music City. One of my favorite songs about Nashville is Big & Rich's Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy, so when the opportunity to get a shot "ridin' up and down Broadway on my old studly Roy..." I couldn't pass it up.

Okay.... so there are more like this one waiting to be uncovered.... along with some other fun shots of the city but they'll have to wait till tomorrow cause we just spent the last 6 hours in the car, driving through 3 different states in a rain storm and I don't have the attention span to load any more pics tonight.

It was a great trip though and we're already planning our next trip to see the things we didn't get to see this time :)

Road Trippin'

Alex and I are off to Nashville for a few days in Music City so I'll catch you girls on the flip side!