Saturday, July 23, 2005

Trip to Nashville, Tennessee

Posted by Dawn at Saturday, July 23, 2005
This morning, had breakfast and set off for Nashville. It is about 2 and a half hour drive from my hotel. I guess CT is used to driving long hours but he still does not like to drive..so it tires him out easily.

We went to Music Valley at Nashville which is about half an hour from the downtown. It is a very cool place. Our first stop was Opry Mills- a huge shopping centre with nice shops like Guess, Levis, and lots of other brands.. It has few hundred shops in it..only one storey. We went in for lunch first and I have already planned where to eat as it seems a cool place to eat in. It is called, "The Aquarium". It is a super neat place with lots of fishes,sharks and stingrays in a big aquarium as a center-piece in the restaurant. So, it is an amazing dining experience having to see the sea creatures swimming.







CT ordered tilipia and crab legs, while I just ordered a lobster bisque soup as I intended to share with CT his meal.
Before te food came, we all got up from our seats and went to the aquarium to see the fishes. For once, we wanted out food to come later.

Here are some nice creatures we saw in the tank..it is a huge tank which you can walk one round around it..

There are many types of sharks and huge stingrays..















There is also a huge green moray eel (from the picture below)..For a person who likes to dive underwater and appreciate the sea creatures, this restaurant is really cool.


We took our time to eat our lunch when the food came and the food was quite nice. The price is not that expensive..it is the usual price you pay when you go to American restaurants..So, I feel this place is worth going.

There were a lot of kids going up in front to see the fishes and sharks. When we first came to the place, it was not that crowded as it was only 11 plus pm. But when we left the place, it was crowded. So many families with kids love the place. It is def a great place to bring kids here..





After having a great lunch, we walked around the shopping centre. My first stop was of course a guitar shop! Nashville is known to be a music city. So def, there are guitar shops around and I went in this Gibson showcase shop which was huge. Gibson is an expensive and good brand of guitars. They had banjos, electric, acostic guitars..with a wide range. The cheapest guitar I could find was about US$2000...and I looked high and low for the most expensive one to play! I finally found a US$10,000 one and started strumming it. Ha..just for the fun of it.

The Opry Mills shopping centre has IMAX and cinema theatres. We went into this arcade place with computer games and those that you can win tickets and exchange for toys..Not only is it an arcade place, they have restaurants in it as well where you can eat and play at the same time or take a rest for a drink. There is also a bowling place in it and a japanese restaurant. Cool..

Another interesting place which we visited was a hotel nearby. What is so great about this hotel is that there is an indoor riverboat cruise in it. The size of this hotel is huge. You actually need a map to walk around and not get lost.

Here are some pictures of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel.











After visiting the interesting places in music valley, we drove to downtown to see what it is like. Lots of tall buildings and cars especially.. Parking very expensive too..unlike music valley where you do not need to pay.

So, we parked and paid for only half and hour which already costs US$2 and decided to use the 30mins to just take pictures and go off. So, we went to hard rock, bought a magnet and then took some pictures at the riverfront before we headed back home.

What was interesting about the downtown was that there are gibson guitar models in every corner of the street. Here some pictures of downtown which I quickly snapped.

The pictures are of a church in downtown which is quite big and on the right is one model of the Gibson guitar along the roads with Hard Rock Cafe at the background.

After a short 30 mins, we headed back home and was caught in this major jam which we had to stop our car for so long. It is quite common here to have jams because the highway does not have many lanes at some points and Americans use their cars very often..so no matter what time, there are always quite a lot of traffic.

What was fun was that one truck with animals in it were beside us. So, we winded down the windows and started mooing to attract the cows and other animals. Hehe..we had fun with the animals...just to entertain ourselves in the jam. Another interesting thing is that, a person in front of our car actually got out of the car and started going to another car to talk.

On our way back, we stopped by a fast food restaurant, "Backyard Burger" and entered the drive-thru to get our food.

Brought back the food home and enjoyed it while watching TV.

1 comments:

Hebrew_Star on Thursday, July 28, 2005 said...

Spectacular!!

They still have Backyard Burgers!?!?! Awesome!! That was one of my favourite places to grab my lunch!! ;o)

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