We’ve moved
to Two Rivers Campground which is about two miles from the Grand Old Opry. It’s a very nice campground, we’ll be staying
here until Monday morning. I’ll take
some pictures for tomorrow’s post. Last
night we went to the show at the Grand Old Opry. It was awesome, but you really have to like
old country music. The show was two
hours long and some of the performers were Jim Ed Brown, John Conlee, Jean
Shepard, Bill Anderson, the Grascals and Larry Gatlin. Jim Ed Brown said he is 79, but his voice is
still beautiful – I could have listened to him all night. Jean Shepard sang “Tennessee Waltz” and I
could remember my Dad singing that when I was a little girl.
Right now we
are sitting on our patio listening to a country singer performing on the porch
of the community building here in the campground, he's pretty good. We are only a couple of sites away so we can
just sit in our lawn chairs and enjoy. The
temperature is 77 degrees with a nice breeze blowing, no humidity – can’t get
much better than this.
In case
everyone thought that the only thing I can cook is desserts, I thought I would
post what we are having for supper this evening. Getting ready to stir-fry chicken and
vegetables. I tried fixing ham loaf in
the crock pot last night while we were gone to the Opry, didn’t turn out too
bad. I had to guess on the time and I
guessed wrong so it was a little overdone, but still edible-it will be better
next time.
We went to
the Opryland Hotel this afternoon. The
size of this place is just overwhelming.
It’s way too big to get a good outside picture unless you are in an
airplane! I’ve stayed here a few times for
conventions when I was on an expense account but it amazes me every time I see
it.
There are
nooks and crannies all over where people can sit and enjoy the beautiful
plants. All of these pictures are taken inside the hotel.
Imagine
sitting on your patio and looking down on all of this.
Restaurants
and bars are surrounded by trees and plants
I’ve grown a
lot of these plants in the past, but they never did look this good. See the little red pepper plants?
Maybe I needed a 40 foot waterfall.
Or a canal
Orchids are
everywhere
And bananas
After we
walked through all of the hotel gardens we headed over the Opry Mills. This is a huge outlet mall, I’m guessing more
than twice the size of the Edinburgh Outlet mall I am familiar with in Indiana. Traffic was backed up for as far as you could
see to get into this place. Once we got
in parking was another problem. We found
a spot next to the roadway coming in and were taking off our helmets and
getting ready to head in when a car on the roadway blew a tire and the hubcap
flew off hitting the car right next to us.
Somebody was looking out for us today – I think that thing would have
hurt, it was moving!
We have a king
size Sleep Number bed in the RV and I’ve been wanting a mattress cover that is
supposed to keep you cool at night. I’m
going to be eighty before I get over these hot flashesJ.
Well, we found one – should have seen Greg getting that thing stuffed
into the storage area on the motorcycle.
I would have taken pictures, but I don’t think he would have appreciated
that. Its times like that he probably
wonders if I’m worth it. I’ll let you
know if this thing works.
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