My lovely wife, Cheryl, and I went to Nashville as tourists the other day. Cheryl is there 5 days a week at work, and I have been there countless times visiting hospitals, going to the downtown Y, going to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts http://www.fristcenter.org/site/default.aspx and the Estel Gallery http://www.estelgallery.com/exhibitions.html The really cool Bicentennial Mall and Farmer's Market. And of course LifeWay
And then of course there is the wonderful Children's Science Museum and the Zoo at Grassmere http://papalyndel.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-fun-at-zoo.html. I still need to get out to Cheekwood.
So why go to downtown as tourists? Well, for our mission trip to Rio, we wanted to take some gifts for our interpreters (presentes para nossos tradutores). So since Clarksville isn't exactly world renown (no offense) we wanted to take some Nashville souvenirs as gifts. It's hard to believe that I have lived in Tennessee for 20 years and in Nashville for 8 of those and we've never been in one of the tourist gift shops downtown. So, here I am.
We picked up some nice t-shirts that say Nashville and have a guitar (pronounced GITar) and a fiddle on them. We also picked up some little coffee cups that say Nashville and have guitars for handles. We thought those would be great since they love coffee (cafezinho) in Brazil.
On our trip as tourists, we of course saw a guy walking down the street with a guitar on his back.
We also saw several beauty pageant contestants. This one had died her poodle pink! Hahaha! (It was easier to tell from the front.)
So if you haven't been to Nashville as a tourist in a while - or ever - take off this weekend and see a great city.
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