Sunday, April 25, 2010

Meat day 2

Hello all,
Today we made it to Nashville, didn't realize there was a time change until the GPS lady informed us at 10:00 that our ETA for Nashville was 11:00, "curious" I thought "Seems much earlier that I remembered, Oh well", soon after she let us know that we still had 120 miles to go, I won't lie I would have been glad to cruise at 120MPH but I am sure the highway patrol would not have approved. This is why I like road trips, it's the little things.
We arrive at 11:00 without hitting triple digit speeds, and promptly headed to Chappy's for Champaign brunch, it was a great meal, (meat count 6.25 turtle, snapper, trout, crab, shrimp, pork and the .25 was a trace amount of alligator in the smoked alligator butter) After the meal we headed to Centennial park, for a nice walk, saw the Parthenon(replica) and enjoyed the terrific weather. We checked into a much nicer hotel this time, then off to the Opry Mills mall for a few needed supplies. We were all still pretty full but had wanted to try Jack's BBQ, and it was close to closing time, so we headed there, it was good but I am now still a few hours later very stuffed. My meat count was increased to eight for the day (turkey, beef)
We attempted a walk when we got back to out hotel but it started to rain a bit, and looked like it might get worse, so we came back, seems like we overreacted since it is still dry out, Colin and Graydyn went down to the gym for their nightly workout. Once they are done I think we will head out to a near by pub for a bit.
We should be leaving for Fontana village fairly early tomorrow so it won't be a very late night.
Took lots of pictures today, but did not upload them yet, maybe tomorrow.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great to hear about a great Nashville restaurant. If I ever go to Nashville, I will definitely make this restaurant a stopover.

Cheers, Philippe

Unknown said...

Nice to see that you are having fun... enjoy the weather, here it is crapy... cold and windy... suppose to be better tomorow...

Take care... Mom XXXX

Aunt J. said...

Good to hear ya'll are having a good time.

TTFN,
C&G's Aunt J.

baby sister said...

Two things. One: we also experienced that hour time change on our way up from FL to TN at Christmas time. The GPS messed with us and we ended up arriving at our friends house in Murphreesboro a bit over an hour late.

Two: They took us to the Parthenon and the Opryland Mall while we were there. It was beautifully decorated for the season. Jerome just sent me an email with a bunch of photo depicting the mall today (or last week) when it was under water from the flooding. Have you seen them? Such a shame.

Jabbles said...

No I have not seen them, do you have a link to the pictures?

baby sister said...

I can send you an email if Jerome still has them.

Actually it was the Opryland Hotel that is right next to the mall.

Anyway, if you go to this link, you'll see a newscast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQiqfTTw4os

baby sister said...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/03/opryland-hotel-flood-phot_n_561687.html

Here you go...