Our first stop was the 9th ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. We dropped our dog off at Steve's house and ate a late dinner at a great place called Sugar Park. We spent the night at Steve's and drove to Nashville, Tennessee the next day. 9 hour drive : ) It was BEAUTIFUL!!
We stopped at an "Amish market." They had rap music playing when we walked in the door.
It almost felt wrong to be in Nashville on the night of the CMAs and not attend, but we found other things to do. Peter is pretty sure he spotted one of the guys in "Big and Rich." This was the streetview (the night after the awards).
We saw fall leaves and listened to Bill O'Reilly's audio book, "Killing Lincoln." We also raided the Nashville Trader Joe's store. (Our closest TJ is in Atlanta, 6 hours away!)
We travelled home by way of Alabama, and saw Birmingham and stopped in Montgomery to meet up with Dennis Kirkland, Peter's pastor during his teenage years in PR. He is going to write more about that visit in the next blog post. We got home around midnight on the "fall back" night and enjoyed an extra hour of sleep, and then Peter got up that morning and drove back to New Orleans to pick up the dog. Whew! Busy weekend!
My friends were nominees at the CMA's ...not sure about this year...but they've both won various awards.
ReplyDeleteI'm more of a Whole Foods junkie than TJ's...mostly because of your friend, Samantha. LOL
Amish w/rap music??? Do they have Amish there??
I heard Dennis preach when I went to PR to visit Lori and John - hope he is doing well and look forward to the next blog.
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