Music City -- Nashville, TN

As you can tell, I haven't been doing a great job keeping up with this blog.  Being on the road constantly and having unreliable internet access has taken its toll on my blogging.  But I'm going to start catching up right now!  Our first full fay in Nashville began with a visit to Belle Meade Plantation which was founded in 1807.  We took a tour of the mansion which was pretty nice.  My favorite piece in the whole house was the square piano.  I think the highlight of the tour was not something, but someone.  There were two little boys on the tour -- Cody and Clayton.  Cody was very inquisitive and kept asking the tour guide a million questions and pointing out things in all the different rooms of the house.  He also kept taking pictures of the other people on the tour, including Brianne and me.  It was a bit strange, but he was like nine so whatever.  At the end of the tour, after we had walked around the grounds by ourselves for a bit, I ran into Cody again in the gift shop.  He told me that it was nice to meet me and then he gave me a hug.  It was actually pretty adorable and I don't really like kids so that means alot coming from me.  After finishing up at Belle Meade, we headed down to the Parthenon which is an exact replica of the one in Greece.  We hung out in the park for a bit and then went into downtown Nashville.  Unfortunately, we were there during the CMA fest so it was packed and there was country music blasting which made it even worse.  But the city itself was pretty cool anyway.  Later that evening we had dinner with Brianne's friends Mariah and Ben and got to bed early in preparation for a long drive the next day.