Sunday, November 20, 2011

Chattanooga is Creek Indian for "rock rising to a point"!

You are so from Chattanooga if you know that goats eat kudzu and wild dogs eat goats....more to come post by post.  They published all these fun facts in a local magazine that they give out.  I pick up ours at the Sports Barn.

Last weekend we went to Nashville! It was a lot of fun. We stayed at the Gaylord Opryland Resort. They have something like 2500 rooms. HUGE!!! It is still recovering after the flood that hit Nashville a year ago. We met some friends from Alabama. The Opry is now being held at the Ryman Auditorium which was one of the original homes to the opry. The current location is being used by the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes for their Christmas show. The hotel and outside were already decorated for Christmas...just beautiful. The hotel has a huge atrium in the center with wonderful landscaping, a river with a boat, restaurants, bars, and shops. We got a shuttle from the hotel to downtown where the Ryman is before dinner. We were going to eat at the Wild Horse Saloon but it was closed because a movie was being filmed in it, so we went up the street for dinner. Not anything too exciting just good food. After dinner we walked around downtown before the show. It was packed. Lots of novelty shops to go in but nothing great...I tried to get Pat to buy this hat.... no luck!



We then went to the show.  It was semi circle seating and was pretty full I thought.  Each singer, band etcetra that is asked to join the opry is obligated to perform there at least once or twice a year, I think.  I know that they only are allowed to perform 2 songs and they get paid $200.00 per evening.  That is why many of todays BIG artists don't want to join the opry because the one night they give up is probably at least 10 times more profitable for them on their own.  Anyway, the show is still a live radio broadcast so we sat through commercials for  Dollar General and Human Health Care.  We saw many performers but the ones that stand out to us were:  Charlie Pride (Kiss an Angel Good Morning),
                                                        Little Jimmies mailbox.  His manager drives him to the opry each nigth.....He has to be as old as dirt....ha.

Little Jimmy Dickens, and Hank Williams Jr's daugher and granddaughter and yes...they sang....I'll Fly Away.  It was entertaining.  We would do it again.

The next morning we had breakfast in the hotel before we left and Pat had "Southern Eggs Benedict"!
Talk about a heart attack on a plate....Get this:  Take an english muffin, add cheese, a big old thick hunk of bacon........a CRAB CAKE!, an egg and then holandaise sauce. Yes, he ate the whole thing.  UGH!

Before we left for Nashville...my oven quit working so I guess I am very Thankful that I am not cooking Thanksgiving dinner.  It won't be fixed until the end of the month!!!!!  So glad for microwaves and grills.

I helped with a Habitat for Humanity build this week.  It is a good feeling to do some manual labor for someone who really needs the leg up.  The lady who will move into the home is caring for her disabled great grandchild.

We went to a Mexican Train party last night.  It is a game with dominoes.  There were about 10 couples there.  We all brought a snack to share and they provided drinks.  I am sure that we will have them over sometime in the future.  Fun!

Our chairs were delivered this morning...I know on a Sunday....seriously.  But, I guess they are getting all the deliveries done they can before Thanksgiving.

Now on a puzzling note....the TV says that Black Friday sales start at midnight on Friday......don't they mean Midnight Thursday????  I thought midnight would be the end of the night.....Think about it...

Living Sweetly in the South,

Miss Jan

1 comment:

  1. Birthday post?!? John says he'll update his blog as often as you. Deal?

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