Our Nashville Trip

I know that in my last post, I mentioned that my family and I were going to Nashville, but I never wrote an entry about it. So, here it is.

Our main purpose for going to Nashville was to visit the Egypt at the Frist exhibit. Shane and I noticed the exhibit during our last trip to Nashville for the Over the Rhine show. We planned then to come back with the whole family to see the exhibit, since our oldest is studying ancient history.

We left Memphis later than expected, and arrived at our hotel sometime after 8:00 p.m. We actually made it all the way to Nashville without one potty break!!!! I could not believe it, but it was great. I hate stopping at public bathrooms.

After a night of rest, and a good complimentary breakfast, we headed to the Frist Building to see Egypt at the Frist. One good thing about the exhibit was free admission for children 18 and under. Free admission is always good for a large family. It also helped us not feel so bad about the exhibit. We were a bit disappointed because the exhibit was short, at least much shorter than we expected. Shane and I are used to the Wonders Exhibits of Memphis. The ones that we have been to have been very large exhibits. This exhibit in Nashville was not big at all. That was disappointing, but it was still good for our oldest to see artifacts from Ancient Egypt. She enjoyed it.

We headed to Opry Mills for lunch. We had lunch at the Aquarium Restaurant. It was great for the children to observe the sea creatures. Our oldest really liked the sting rays and the large fish. It was good for her to see them because we studied sting rays the following week. I also shopped for some dresses for our youngest daughter, who is now three months old. She is growing out of her clothes very quickly. I found some really cute western dresses on sale. We rested back at the hotel, and prepared for the Lord's Day.

While Shane and I were at the Generations Conference in May, we had the priviledge of meeting the Carpenter Family, of Franklin Springs Family Media. We decided it would be great to worship with their chuch while we were in Nashville. They worship with a delightful group of families in the Franklin area. We enjoyed the worship service. It is a family-integrated fellowship. It was nice to worship with many families. After worship, there was a sweet little girl who was giving loaves of bread to all the families that were there for worship. I later learned from her mother that this sweet little girl had been baking loaves of bread, herself. It was so sweet. We were invited by a family to have lunch at their home, but Shane decided it would be best for us to get a quick lunch so we could head back home. The people there were very kind.

We had lunch at a little Mexican restuarant in Franklin, TN. That was my first time to visit Franklin. I have often heard many nice things about that town. It was so cute. Now, I can see why people like it so much.

After lunch, we headed home. We made it back to Memphis in good time. We were blessed to see a really pretty rainbow on the way home. It was a nice ending to a nice little trip.