Saturday was spent exploring the Gaylord Opryland Resort and the (new) Grand Ole Opry and Museum in Nashville. The Gaylord is a complex of three large hotels that appear to host many and huge conventions, but most notable (to us) and the reason for our visit (thanx to Roberta for the tip) was the two beautiful and huge atrium complexes that are incorporated into the areas between the towers of the hotel rooms. Other than being a bit taken aback at the hotel charging $16 for parking, we spend a very pleasant couple of hours exploring the complex and enjoying all that was to be seen in the atrium enclosures.
In our opinion, the Grand Ole Opry was a bit of a disappointment; first, because we were not able to see anything of the inside of the Opry (and we could not find any shows that listed anyone that either of us was interested in hearing) and second, right next to the Opry is the Opry Mall - yes, a shopping mall - huge in scope and so busy that the nearest parking we could find was on the order of 1/2 mile away from the entrance. Naturally, this also meant a considerable amount of traffic in all areas surrounding the mall. On the other hand, the Opry Museum was a pleasant experience - a step into both the history of the Opry and the evolution of Country Music through the legends that appeared on the stage at the (old) Opry which we plan to visit tomorrow.
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Oh, what a great picture! I love that. Are there more "creatures" in the water? Bummer that the Opry kinda sucked. Now I know that I shouldn't even entertain going to Nashville. Not my style anyway. At least you found something nice to see. Yippee!
Yes, there were some other creatures, but the Loch Ness Monster was by far the best of the lot. Even with the (new) Opry being something less than expected, it was still quite a nice day and the following day it was so much better to visit the original Grand Ole Opry location at the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville. There will be some comments and photos of that showing up in a blog sometime soon.
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