Day 18 - Moseying Home LA to Toronto

April 2015 - Nashville TN

We're up early and have the complimentary breakfast provided, and people watch as it is full of NRA participants.

We head down to the Johnny Cash Museum, snapping on the way, most people are not out yet.

The sky was full of cotton wool clouds.

Not sure if he is an early bird or just hasn't gone home yet.

I'll do a detailed post on the museum in the future. 

We leave the museum and discover the Goo Goo store. Anyone who has ever been to a Cracker Barrel knows about this addictive chocolate!

We're still trying to figure out why we had never noticed this bridge before!

We had been to the Country Music Hall of Fame in the early '90s, I need to check our photos. Lots more photos to come!!!

We decided on Joe's Crab Shack for lunch, a definite favourite of both of us!! Our last crab fix was in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago.

We figure we can then have dinner up our way.

After lunch we split up, John goes back to the hotel and I wander around. I had planned on seeing the Walk of Fame but it is under renovation.
Across the street from the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Street is closed for NRA, check out this guy's shirt.

Gorgeous blossoms!!

I checked out some churches.
The side of the Custom House.

Signpost for the museum exhibit.

Behind the Visual Arts Center.

I went to the museum, $12 to enter and no photos. I found a new sculptor that I really liked, John Rogers. I also liked the photography of Tina Barney, check out her website.

   

Dinner turns out to be an interesting excursion.

We had been to the Flying Saucer in Fort Worth a week ago and really enjoyed it.

So we headed to their location in Nashville.
We have also been to Nashville bars many times, including this day and the day before.

We sat down and I ordered a glass of wine, the server asks for ID.
I didn't even bring my purse. No problem, my husband said he'd run back to the hotel and get my ID.

He leaves and the server then says, where are we from? I say Canada and she says oh then we need our passports as ID as our "state" ID  would not be acceptable.

With that I stomped left as I knew my husband would never think of bringing our passports.

As world travelers, our passports are always in the hotel safe. We would never take them out with us, copies maybe, depending on the country. Plus we have never been asked for passport as ID in the United States.

Never mind the fact that we have never been asked for ID in Nashville.

We went to another place for dinner and were not asked for any IDs.

Day 17 - Moseying Home LA to Toronto

April 2015 - Nashville TN

Since we are on the executive floor at the Hilton "Memphis" we are supposed to get our breakfast in the lounge, but, no, it is Saturday and it is not open.

We check out and I voice my complaints to the desk clerk who said we should have been given breakfast coupons. I explained how badly the check in was handled and she checked and said it was a trainee. Fine, but trainees shouldn't be on the desk for Hilton Honors guests. She was very gracious and reduced the price of our room since we didn't get any benefits.

This fabulous sculpture of Satchmo is in the lobby.

The eyes were amazing, I felt like they were staring at me.

We pull off intending to eat at Loretta Lynn's Kitchen but it is a buffet and we don't need want that much food.

We opt for BBQ instead and then laugh as we realize we had eaten here a few years ago, but it was much smaller. John had ribs and I had pulled pork sandwich.

We get into our hotel, Holiday Inn Express, the only place I could find as NRA, 70,000 of them, are in town for the annual convention. Don't even ask what we had to pay for this place. The only good thing was the location, new to us across from the renovated Union Station.

The Customs House.

Just a few people hanging out at one of the bars.

It is so crazy busy so we have a beer and then head back to check in. John watches golf and then I went out to get some photos as the light was really good.

Visual Arts Center, I plan on stopping in tomorrow.

We decide it is too busy and everywhere would be too packed so we order a pizza and watch American Sniper.