Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Live from Nashville!

Well here we are live from Nashville Tennessee! We have taken in the sights and sounds visiting of course the Grande Ole Opry. We went to the Museum and Gift Store but didn't end up getting tickets to the show - Leah was really sad that Taylor Swift was not playing! 

We also went to the Country Music Musuem and Hall of Fame which is in downtown Nashville. We learned lots of the long and rich history of country music and learned about people like Hank Williams (and Hank Williams 2nd and 3rd), Little Jimmie Dickins, and of course the one and only Johnny Cash. 

Emma and Leah were interestedto learn more about Dolly Parton and we took some George Strait pictures for Mrs. Jackson.


So about our last trivia question - "Dang" (the Tennessee folks love to use this word) - you folks are smart! Pigeon Forge Tennessee is all about Dolly Parton - besides being our camp hosts second cousin, she has a whole theme park called Dollyworld and Dolly's DixieLand Stampede right in town. We were impressed with Grandpa's quick answer, the Pisko's skilled response and Laura and Georgia's correct guess (Yes Georgia - Leah did get to pet the stingrays but she thought they were kind of slimy!).

After a visit to Camping World in Nashville in the morning we hope to head towards Memphis for all things Elvis!

See you - Has the snow all melted?? It sounds like it was quite the May Long Weekend - from Sunburn to Snow!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am sooo excited, George Strait!! Who needs to see Taylor Swift, was Ray hearing Banjo music?

Anonymous said...

Elvis cool! All the snow is gone for now. I thought in that Johnny Cash thing it was Elvis until I read it.

-Nicole

Anonymous said...

Hey Ray cool vid. game u sent on that e-mail, it made me go lol when i saw how the characters were. When u come back u ought 2 show me how 2 do that.
Adam O.

Uncle Gordie said...

Waaaall aaaall bee!?!

Dang, thart wuz a gud YAHOOOOOO!

Whadda y'all thank?

Keep up the awesome posts and pics.

Found any smarties yet?