Somewhere along the way, we came upon the largest pumpkin we had ever seen! There must have been a fair close by because it was followed closely a huge watermelon. Unfortunately, we only were able to get a photo of the pumpkin...behold.
That would make one hell of a jack-o-lantern.
About half way to Nashville we realized that neither of us knew where the dog's leashes were (whoops). Before we could stop anywhere else, we had to get new leashes, Petsmart here we come! While I was in Petsmart, Steven was outside with his handy, fancy phone, finding an REI: we also needed a bike lock. In the REI parking lot I took advantage of the Starbucks next door and stole their internet to find us a hotel, we didn't feel like camping. The REI folks were great. They fixed our new gerber gadget we got from the Dardens (THANKS!) and gave Steven a few suggestions on pet friendly restaurants. I booked us a room at a local Best Western that allowed dogs and then we set off to get some grub!
We took a scenic drive to the restaurant that was recommended to us: Blackstone Restaurant and Brewery. Along the way we saw some amazingly huge houses. Old southern money maybe? Some of them were really beautiful, but I didn't get any photos of them.
Blackstone was pretty neat, they had the best warm pretzels we've ever had and some very good micro brews.
We were alone on the patio for a little while with the dogs until a young family joined us. They were very nice and their son, Townsend, was in love with our dogs. They tried to distract him with Sprite and even a tiny DVD player, but he always ended up bouncing around our pups again. Luckily, they were exhausted. Excuse the camera phone...it couldn't quite handle the lack of light.
After dinner we checked into the hotel where the pups were happy to discover they had their own bed.
Yep, exhausted. By the way, that hotel had the worst pillows I've ever slept on...I would not recommend the Best Western on Music Row.
That concluded Day 1. Some driving, eating and drinking and generally being merry.
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it! We'll try to update this as much as possible, we are a little behind at this point.
-Liz
Yay what fun! Can't wait to read more.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your adventures so far!! It is fun to read and picture you guys going through all this. You know how much I like reading your stories ;) Keep blogging!!
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