This happened a couple months ago, but I guess I should still share. I went to Tennessee for the first time in June! It was for a wedding, but it was still fun. Maybe I will save my wedding rants for later.

I loved seeing where Tyler grew up. Just for fun, here is a picture of little Tyler. So cute!

 

We got to spend the first day exploring Nashville. 

Yes, there is a fake Parthenon randomly sitting in the middle of the city. It's probably the closest I'll ever get to the real thing though, so I'm glad I got to see it. (Fun fact, it was made of gravel. Pretty sure the Greeks didn't do that.)

 Matching shoes. So cute.

 Of course, the only music on the radio was country.

We saw James Polk's grave. 

  

Here's the capitol building. 

 The capitol had all these old columns artistically lying around.

  

Went to the Grand Ol Opry. Or just Opryland? Opryland hotel? Where is the Grand Ol Opry? I'm confused. Here's me photobombing Travis and Jordyn's picture. Oops.

 

 I don't understand what Opryland is, but here is a picture of Tyler being Shrek, because they just happened to have Shrek's home there.

 Here's another picture of Opryland. Oh wait, Opryland must be the amusement park. Oh well, this is inside the hotel. It was actually pretty cool. The ceilings were all glass so it's like you never even have to go outside. You could pay $10 to ride around this moat in a little boat. Guess who didn't get a boat ride.

 This train track was just at a park where they used to hang out. I got two mosquito bites on my face here. On my face. Plus one on my arm that swelled up so big people asked me what I did to my arm.

 

This is the road Tyler's grandma lives on. 

 This is the house that is on his grandma's property. I am fairly certain it is haunted.

This is the only Civil War site we went to. I know, kind of embarrassing that  we only made it to one, but we were short on time and money and all the other sites were like $15-20. Anyways this here is the Battle of Franklin. It was kind of interesting because there were so many Confederate flags there. I should have expected it, but I didn't really think it happened. 

Downtown Franklin in the rain. 

 Here is the wedding reception location. All those perfectly tied bows? That was me. Well a good portion of them anyways. For the record, I am not in any way a good decorator as I learned when people literally cringed as I tried to set things up. So to all my brothers, listen up. If you want a nice looking reception, probably don't ask me. Probably rely on whoever marries into the family to help with that. Or mom's friends, who did such a spectacular job at my wedding.

Here is the Nashville Temple. It is teeny tiny. You can't really tell, but it's like half the size of the Columbia River Temple, and that one is small too. 

 

And here's Tyler on a bridge. 

I loved Tennessee. Although here's my question. Where are the sidewalks/shoulders/where do people run? There were not safe running conditions there.
Anyways if we go back, I want to go back in the fall, and I want to go to the Smokey Mountains.