Road Trip Day 13

This post will catch us up! Yesterday was a full, fun day. We packed up our stuff and cleaned out the trailer (highly necessary after 2 full days in a "primitive" campground with lots of dirt. We drove to Nashville, where we checked into a HOTEL!!! We unloaded our car and brought our cooler inside so we could get everything into the fridge. We also had some lunch. Sort of. We had limited options since all of our non-refrigerated food was in the trailer, which we were not going to open up in the hotel parking lot. So we had some deli meat and sliced cheese, carrots and apples. There was a microwave, so Dave decided to warm up a sausage for himself and some bacon for Micah. However, we didn't have any plates or paper towels or anything, so he improvised with a glass.

Then we drove into town to visit the Country Music Hall of Fame.

It was fun and interesting to see all the things, but again, not worth the cost. We walked around saw a little bit of the sights in town, but it was like 100* outside, so we went back to the hotel to swim instead.

We had some pizza for dinner and then enjoyed a real shower! The kids then stayed at the hotel watching a Harry Potter marathon on tv and Dave and I ubered back into town to see what was up. We started at a place called Layla's where we saw a great band that played a lot of old school country. They even played some John Denver for me that totally made my night.

When we got back (at like 11), everyone was still awake watching Harry Potter. License plate and state stats: same as yesterday.

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