Saturday afternoon about 2 p.m. we arrived in Nashville at the
Opryland Hotel and got settled into a nice room with a balcony overlooking one of the 3 huge atriums in the hotel. Then we had a VERY nice seafood dinner at the
Cascades restaurant in the hotel, before we headed over to the auditorium for the Grand Ole Opry!!! Loved it as always!!!
Sunday we enjoyed a magnificent buffet breakfast at the Water's Edge (in the hotel) that's located beside the indoor, Delta River. Then we goofed off most of the day, and enjoyed sitting on our balcony perusing the lush greenery and waterfalls in the atrium. About noon we wandered over the Delta Island in one of the other atriums, and had some frozen goodies at the Häagen-Dazs shop and "people watched" for anhour or so, before returning to our balcony perch.
Then last evening we ate at the opulent
Old Hickory Steakhouse (in the hotel) and gorged ourselves on awesome food.....I had a fork-tender 22 oz. bone-in rib steak cooked medium, and all the trimmings. Mom had their barbecued short ribs with all of the trimmings.....and she said they were excellent!
This morning we went back to the Water's Edge for breakfast, and had the same server as yesterday...a very sweet gal that I'd met when we were at Opryland back in December. At that time, besides working days in the restaurant (and being our server), they also employ her evenings to entertain guests passing through one of the main lobbies....a magnificent pianist and vocalist!!!
After breakfast, we loafed on our balcony for a few hours before checking out, and heading toward home again....stopping here in Mt. Vernon, IL for the night...then the rest of the way home in the morning!
Life is GREAT!!! It's March!!! Spring is only 19 days from today!!!