Nashville Pt. 1 {Heyyy Momma Rock Me}

So you know when you go on a trip and all you hear is the same song over.and.over.and.over again?

That would be Wagon Wheel for us in Nashville. It's a good thing I really like it...

When you read my recaps, give a listen to the song. Or if you don't like music playing, then just don't. You won't hurt my feelings, but it sets the mood for me, so it's staying! ;)

DAY 1

Over the weekend, there was a total of 17 girls with us celebrating my girlfriend Jen's bachelorette party, but only some of us could/decided to go down a day early to spend more time in the city. What you see today is this group of gals!

I'm so happy I decided to do this because it ended up being one of my favorite days of our trip. We headed down around 6am and since it's only a little over a 5 hour drive from us, we were in the city by noon (and we gained an hour!) ready to explore. Or party. Whichever.

Sidenote: how much fun are roadtrips with girlfriends? We had an absolute BLAST in our car on the way down. Stories that can't be repeated and laughs that made my stomach hurt. If you haven't had a roadtrip in a while with your girlfriends, you should get on that. :)

 

 my g/f Kelly showing you how much stuff we managed to pack-there was literally a wall of stuff in between the two girls in the backseat, haha. Oh, and that's our little speaker friend.

This day was the only day it rained while we were there, and let me tell you it was pouring! Once we checked in our hotel, we did some celebratory/highly necessary jello shots and decided to do more inside activities this day, which was the perfect choice.

emergency poncho's to the rescue!

cowboy boots were a must.

First up...

Country Music Hall Of Fame
I highly recommend doing this $22.00 tour if you like the history of country music and enjoy museum's. I'm really glad we did it! It was about 2 hours (or less) and it's something I wanted to do to cross of my "must see" list! 

 

 

 

 Jason Aldean, anyone? Love love love.

 

Sisters Lisa / Jen (Jen is the bachelorette!)

They recently added a set for the Nashville show that featured outfits they actually wore on specific episodes and also some of their guitars...

 

Deacon...Deacon....Deacon....sigh.

 

 

My favorite guitar there had to be Taylor Swift's. I'm not the biggest fans of hers (is she not driving most of us crazy lately?), but you have to admit her guitar is pretty badass.

This picture is in an area where all the artists who have been elected are...

Next up...

Corner Pub

A great local pub and restaurant. We did the tour and hopped on over here for drinks/to eat and had a blast here! It seemed like a local favorite. The food was really good, too!

#realgirlsdrinkbeer ;)

One of the main reasons why we picked the Corner Pub was because it's almost directly across the street from the famous Bluebird Cafe! We were SO excited to see this place. If you go here: make reservations and get their early!

 

 random strangers using my camera results in half blurry pics...grrr...

 

We did learn that only the pilot from the show Nashville was filmed here and that they actually have a set somewhere else that they film from. Not to break all of your hearts or anything! It was still so amazing to see because of how many famous musicians have performed here. Plus, they have shows every night so you never know if you are seeing the next big star!

Here's a view of the inside... there is a bar area, not pictured, to the left but as you can see it's a small little place!

The bars in Midtown were on our list next.

This area is awesome. If you don't want to be "touristy" downtown, this is the place to go! Many locals hang out in this area including the big stars. We actually met two singers/songwriters at the bar Losers (another bar called Winners is right next door!) and talked to them for quite a bit. It was interesting to hear their stories! Cora Keller was one of them if you want to look her up..she was on the x-factor this past year, too. She's also from OHIO! Woo.

While we were at Losers, this random dude came up to us (he was alone and we thought was totally weird) and literally tried persuading, aka begging, us to come next door to Winners to hang out with him and his friends for a bachelor party. We gave him the.hardest.time. It was hilarious. But we finally gave in and decided to go over there to check it out and immediately the bachelor in their group took our bachelorette and started dancing and dipping her....

 

We ended up having a blast with them....innocent fun. They were really nice (NOT creepy-so that's a plus) and we literally danced for over three hours with barely any sitting down. The next morning, and the rest of the trip, my feet/heels/legs were feeling extremely numb. Two words: WORTH IT.

Stay tuned for Pt. 2 where I show you more of our time downtown at Rippy's, Tootsie's, Tequila Cowboy, and more! Yeeeee-hawwwwww.....

PS: Any of you southern gals or ladies in this area want to recommend good country songwriters to me?! I just LOVED the music we heard all weekend and want to find some favorites!