NEW! Nashville part of vacation...Wednesday, June 18 through Friday, June 20, 2008

Ok - so - we get into Nashville and Aunt Randi's still at work...I made her promise me that Tim McGraw would be there, but no such luck...something about this tour that he's on...oh well. We drove by to see where Aunt Randi's place was and then buzzed over to her office to see where she works and who she works with! It was quite fun...that's an office i wouldn't mind working in again! We went to Centennial park which was right next door to wait for her to finish and so we could feed the ducks and see the "parthenon". The kids had a great time feeding the ducks crackers and running across the lawns in the park! We had a hard time deciding where to go for dinner - but finally decided on the family atmosphere of the Aquarium restaurant in Opryland. You dine in an aquarium with sharks and fish and coral - it was very cool and the kids couldn't get enough! Wonderful food too! Then it was back to Aunt Randi's to snuggle in for the night. Gabby had a sleepover with Aunt Randi up in her room (i was so surprised - in a different place with different things around her, she was still up for being totally away from us with her Aunt! What a big girl!) The rest of us had a sleepover in her living room, but it was very much fun!


We got up a little late the next morning, but decided to just go and walk music row and do the typical sightseeing. We bought us some cowboy (cowgirl for gabby and mommy and lex) hats, and had a great time walking around. No celebrity sightings...nobody really cared but me, but we saw one of the girls from Rock of Love 2 on VH1 - yeah, i know, i'm showing my reality TV addiction online, but i'm okay with that! We were going to meet aunt randi again for dinner, but she was getting ready to leave for Vegas for a Tim Mcgraw show, so we decided to go to BB Kings - they had live music - which was great, with brass and everything! We loved it and we had great BBQ and chicken nuggets too! The band even loved our kids - we were sitting in the very back and all the kids were rockin' to the music and on our way out the band was playing on stage and the kids waved "bye" to them all, and they all waved back and even stopped to say bye! Our kids get all the attention!

Our last day in Nashville was just good-byes. Aunt Randi was leaving for Vegas and we had a nine hour drive ahead of us to get to Chicago. Jeremy broke a shower gel bottle in Aunt Randi and her roomie Cynthia's shower - i guess there was too much girlie stuff in there - and everywhere he turned there was girlie smelly stuff...he dropped their shelf in the shower and this one broke...it smelled very good, but not on Jeremy...it was funny none-the-less. We got country-fied, and said goodbye and headed to Chicago. We had a great time and thanks to Aunt Randi and her roomate Cynthia for being so gracious as to let us crash your pad! It was so nice to see where aunt randi makes home now and to meet her wonderful roomie! Thanks guys and we love you aunt randi!

New post for Chicago...i'm slow, but i'm working on it...