Nashville, Tennessee

(Date of visit: January 14, 2011)

Since we were in the state, we decided to take a peak at Nashville, TN. We aren't huge country fans but it would have been cool to run into someone famous.

(For the record, I don't literally mean "run into" I was referring to something more like a random sighting, from a safe and appropriate distance. Just thought I would throw that out there in case we get into an accident with a celebrity and get sued for premeditated assault. You can never be to safe.)

Where was I? Nashville, right. Home of the Grand Ole Opry.

So we pull up and I ask Tom, "Where is the red barn?" He laughs.

No, seriously. No barn? Really?

I honestly thought the Grand Ole Opry was in a big red barn. Nope. Just this sign and a big brown building that does not resemble a barn in any way. (And before you make fun of me, I have told a few other people that I expected to see the red barn and I am happy to report that I am not alone here.)

You actually have to go to a show inside the Grand Ole Opry to see the red barn (facade) on stage. It's just a prop. Stage decoration?!?

It's almost as shocking as finding out about Santa.

Most everything was closed because they were still recovering from the flood that happened in May of 2010. So there wasn't a lot to do. We could have gone to the Dukes of Hazzard Museum but we decided to skip it.

I think I was so disappointed about the red barn that on some subconscious level I was afraid that I would go there and find out that the General Lee was really just a Ford Pinto or something like that. I just couldn't risk any more disappointments. ;-)

We did swing by to check out the Parthenon. It's not often that you get a look at an ancient Greek building without actually traveling to Greece. LOL  The kids saw this building in the movie Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief so we thought we should check it out.

The Parthenon

Greek Goddess Athena

I thought the Goddess Athena was suppose to be pretty? Shiny, yes. Pretty, not so much. Pretty scary, definitely. Is it just me or is Tom looking a little to closely at the sculpture of the scantily clad Goddesses? Just sayin'. (I just put that in here to see if he actually reads these posts.)