Nashville

an ALL country city. on the main street called broadway it was all bars and gift shops. what was interesting was each bar had a live country singer. so u could walk down the street and hear different singers back to back. it wasn't uncommon to see someone wearing a country hat. the atmosphere sucked me in so i bought one too. there was some huge event called FanFair goin on when we came so they said 60,000 extra people were there. there was a concert one night, the day i bought my hat, and everyone with hats were GONE. kinda scary. oh the Southern Hospitality was really great. everyone was friendly. except for that mcdonalds cashier in Georgia.... but that's besides the point. we took a 4 hour tour with Tootsie's Tours around nashville and we saw famous people houses. the tour guide's southern accent was SO thick. it made my head hurt for awhile. after 3hours with him i got used to it. (why is my sister watching the wiggles??) there's this place called Millionaire's Way. Those houses were HUMONGOUS. huge yards too. the biggest house/property was Alan Jackson's house. it wasn't in that area, it was in a secluded area. he had a whole farm area plus the house. who actually needs 32+ cars? near our hotel there was a go cart and mini golf place. my sis and i did the go cart thing. that was fun. giving her some driving experience lol.

memphis

Memphis is ghetto! almost the whole entire downtown are full of vacant shops. I think it was most likely a lot better when Elvis was alive. we took this trolley for 60cents that went all the way around it. it was kinda freaky at one point because at the end we were the only passengers, and the driver just gets out of the trolley! he doesn't tell us what he's doin. my sister and i are like "uuhh is he gonna leave us here?" we were afraid we would have to walk all the way back. which was faaar. and where he leaves us is like scary ghetto area. (ya u know some ghettos are more friendly...) finally he comes back tho and goes back to beale street. that is where all the entertainment is. it's a lil like downtown pasadena only with live music. there we ate at Elvis Presley's Memphis. the food was good, i had the hawaiian pork chop. oh in memphis i only saw one person wearing a cowboy hat and that was at our hotel. so i got *a lot* or weird looks when i wore mine. lol yes i wore mine, when else am i gonna get to wear it?? oo maybe on thurs... j/k anyway at EP's Memphis there was a live band called Nativeson. reminded me of Dave Matthew's band. their instrumental solos were so long tho kind of annoying. oh there was also this minimall called Peabody Place. there was this one store that had rare gifts. and guess what they had... a real stuffed (or w/e they do to it) turtle! :'( . it was from texas. those darn texans! cost $80 but i wouldn't buy that. poor turtle... *sniff sniff*. that store also claimed to have realy dinosaur fossils and wooly mammoth hair. haha i dunno about that. we also went Glow Golfing at P. Place which is indoor and all blacklight. it was kinda funny cuz the beginning of the course had all of these shrooms and i was thinking... what kinda people actually created this place. but it was cool cuz as we moved on it went to the ocean, then out to space.

next TN vacation entry will be about Graceland and the hotels.