Nashvegas, Family Style!

Today we took a day-trip to Nashville. We wanted to have a little mini-vacation since this week is "Reading Week" for ^J^ and we kind of have a break. I still have work and the kids still have school, but he does not have classes so we took the kids out of school and played today. We went to the West side of Nashville and found fancy shops and the Whole Foods and Trader Joes. Then we explored the Parthenon and the kids rolled down the hills in the park. After that we decided to venture out to the country a bit to eat at the Loveless Cafe. Yumminess. The kids loved it too, especially the homemade biscuits and peach preserves. They were pretty tuckered out after that so we headed back home with a quick stop to Target on the way back. It was a really fun day and there was so much we wanted to do but didn't get to, but we tried to focus on doing things we'd never done before this time. Next time we want to do the Purity Dairy tour (free ice cream!), and during the holidays we plan to take the kids to see the Grand Ol' Opry Hotel when it's decorated. It's really nice living this close to a very cool city, too bad I can't seem to remember my camera for fun family events like this...