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Girls Weekend to Nashville
Posted July 1st, 2009 by Mom | Discussion (0)
Jessica, Laura and I spent the weekend in Nashville. It was a great trip. There are many inside jokes that will be shared between us in the coming years.
Sea Salts
Chicka, Chicka
Ah Chooooo!
We stopped at the Casey Jones Rail Road Museum and Restaurant for lunch. They have an amazing buffet – fruit, veggies, meats, fish, etc. After lunch we strolled through the shops situated in the same parking lot as the restaurant. We saw this poster person (can’t think of the word right now!) and had to have a group shot with Marilyn.
Upon arriving in Nashville, we checked into the hotel. We were given warm chocolate chip cookies with our room keys. Yum!
For dinner Saturday evening, we ate at the Aquarium restaurant. While we were waiting for out table to be ready, we browsed Barnes and Noble Bookstore. Laura and Jessica had mentioned that they learned about the birds and the bees from a specific book that compares making love to “sneezing.” (Really, it does say this!)
The Aquarium restaurant was 5 out of 5 stars in my opinion. I’m not sure what I ate for dinner, but it was great! It was some kind of fish fillet with fresh steamed vegetables and seasoned rice. We ordered – and split between us – 3 desserts! They were incredible!!! Key Lime Pie, Cheesecake with a dark chocolate shell and raspberry sorbet, and Creme Brulee – each with a sugar cookie on top in the shape of a fish, after all we were at a restaurant called The Aquarium.
After a long and luxurious dinner we strolled the Opry Mills Mall. We shopped at Bath and Body Works – something (we commented while there) that we could do at home, but also realized that shopping sans kids is really neat! We also found a cart that sold Dead Sea Salts. Chicka, chicka! Seriously, the salts are really good and I would highly recommend them.
Finally we made it back to the hotel (after no less than 2 u-turns) after an interesting trip to Walgreens – none of us had ever been risque enough to look at all the “special products for couples” before and didn’t mind going as a group to check things out, plus we weren’t in OUR town for anyone to possibly stumble upon us! While we were talking about the products, a male clerk came through the aisle changing shelf leaflet. I’m not sure who was more embarrassed by him – him or us!
We stayed up until 3 am talking. Life is really good and lots of fun chatting with the gals!
Sunday lunch was at the Rain Forest Cafe. I had never eaten there before. It was quite the experience! Every half hour or so the lights would flicker and it would “thunder” and have rain noises.
