Nashville Pt. 2 {Why Don't You Take Me Downtown?}

 

 

Well, well, well, here we are...who's ready for round 2?

I feel like I've had a pretty good dose of country cities lately. 

First Houston, now Nashville...definitely loving it.

DAY 2

All of the other girls got in town pretty early, so we headed into the city to meet them at our hotel and go explore downtown. We stayed at the Double Tree by Hilton, which is a super short walk to the shops/bars and reasonably priced. Highly recommend staying here-our rooms were nice and the service was great!
*the hotel was also a filming location for the show Nashville :)

 

 the "batman building"

The majority of the bars/restaurants downtown are on one street, so you can just hop from one place to the next and ALL of them are fun. ALL of them have stages. ALL of them have live music! 

And you WILL dance at all of them.

Doesn't that just scream a wonderful time? It does to me!

 

We went to Tequila Cowboy (above) for lunch. Not the most fabulous food, but a great atmosphere and they were able to fit all 17 of us! They have a mechanical bull for at night. Afterwards, we made our way down the street hitting all the hot spots!

The songwriters/musicians that we came across? 

So talented and I wanted to scoop them up, give them each a record deal, and have them come play in Columbus.

 

 

Looks amazing, right?!

Not pictured: day drinking, country dancing, singing at the top of our lungs, and my girlfriend Jen (the bachelorette) being pulled up on stage at multiple places.

Oh, wait, I do have a picture of that...

 

They even played our favorite Ohio song, 'Hang On Sloopy" for us! 

Do you see the girl on the right? That's Lindsey, Jen's sister, and she brought her high school recorder (see it?!) on the trip with her and played it at multiple bars. Hahahaha. Even some of the bands used it on stage.

Our favorite spots? 

Tootsies (this is a must see-it's famous!), Rippy's (upstairs outside), Paradise Park Trailer Resort (this place has a food stand inside for late night eats-the tator tots? BUY THEM!), and The Stage (good dancing bar). We went to many other places (probably close to all of them at one point), but those were the ones that stood out to me!

 

Later on in the day, I decided I just had to buy my own legit pair of cowboy boots. None of this fake crap was going to cut it anymore (was this the booze talking? not sure..)

About an hour later, we both came out with boots smiling from ear to ear. 

I'm so happy that I decided to buy them and especially IN Nashville!

 Meet my new pretties....

This was about the day that I decided I never wanted to leave.
Seriously.

Part 3 is our final 2 days and includes our bachelorette festivites!

Who else is in love with the city of Nashville? 
 I know I'm not alone...