Opryland truly is a small continent. Actually, it’s kind of like another planet. With an immense indoor outlet mall, a 25-screen movie theater and a huge hotel called the Gaylord Opryland, the likes of which I haven’t seen outside of Vegas. It has several (yes, several) huge lobbies replete with indoor waterfalls and rivers. Not to mention the Grand Ole Opry itself, which is a lot less impressive in person than I expected. It’s essentially a big brick building.
Category Archives: Wanderlust
Belle Meade Plantation
For the first time in many, many years I explored a new city on my own (poor husband had to toil away at work). As much as I adore my amazing girls and my husband, I don’t remember the last time I had the opportunity to discover a new place on my own terms. It was delightful (and it helped that the weather was beautiful).
Nashville!
The girls are with my mom for their winter break and I invited myself on my husband’s business trip to Nashville. We arrived a few hours ago and spent a couple of hours exploring the main drag downtown. After lunch, we hit a bar and listened to some live music, which is everywhere. There are a lot of bars up and down Broadway and each one seemed to offer live bands – some of which were as country as they come while others were a little more rock. The band that was performing in the photo fell into the latter category, thankfully.
Machu Picchu in May
It’s a done deal. After talking about taking a once in a lifetime trip with mom for what seemed like years, we bought our plane tickets and booked our vacation to Peru for two weeks next May.
A Few Final Observations About Our Vacation
Boogie boarding in the ocean is as fun in 2012 as it was in 2010 (credit to Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Seven Seas” for the accompanying music).
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History’s the Bomb!
After a couple of weeks at the beach, we’re now immersing ourselves in revolutionary history at Williamsburg.
Another Alligator and a Deer
We’re all about communing with nature here at Hilton Head. The alligators are ever-present, lurking in the ponds, keeping a lookout for stray golfballs and eyeing humans with suspicion, as evidenced by the photo of Chloe standing next to one below.
More Fun at the Beach
With two more days to go before we start our journey back north, we lucked out today with more sunshine than had been predicted by the weather gods.
Beaufort, South Carolina
We ventured into the heart of the lowcountry yesterday, with a visit to Beaufort, South Carolina, a picturesque town located between Charleston and Savannah that Pat Conroy calls home. After some delicious southern bbq for lunch at a place called Q on Bay, we strolled along the river and helped the local economy by opening our wallets at some of the shops on the main drag.
The $5 Challenge
We have been greatly enjoying the outdoors here at Hilton Head, as evidenced by the photos below of the girls at the pool and at the beach. We finally experienced some real waves yesterday and Chloe caught several good rides on her boogie board. But…