Nashville - Day 1

Finally, we made it to Nashville! We have been wanting to go for years and it just never worked out. The hotels have been so expensive there....about $400 a night and I just can't justify that. So we tried an Airbnb! The total for 3 nights was $410! I found pretty cheap flights on Southwest so we left Thursday morning about 6:30 and we were at the door to the studio apartment at 10:30! We would've been there earlier but we ate in the airport when we got there b/c we weren't supposed to 'check in' until 11 am....(which was a mistake given the prices!) but we met a guy Landon from Oregon there!

The place we stayed at was brand new....still construction going on upstairs and the lower level. It was so cute and perfect! There was a gas station 3 blocks away that we walked to for some pop and snacks to have and there were a couple restaurants that were within walking distance too!

Our first stop after getting situated in the place was lunch at 51 Taproom, 2 blocks away and it just opened 3 weeks ago! Very cool place! We shared the shrimp tacos, had a couple beers, chatted with the manager and then got an Uber downtown. Only a $10 Uber ride, so it wasn't bad at all. Totally worth it!

We got downtown and the atmosphere is awesome! So many people, so many open windows and doors to floors and floors of live music!  We found the famous Tootsies right away so we went there.....we ended up there from 3 until about 9 pm. We had good seats, we liked the bands and we ended up getting to know the guitar player Mark.

There was this cute singer....too bad he chewed. Gross.

And this chick was really good too....I wouldn't mind having her body either!

Supposedly the older guy wrote the song he sang, who knows if that is true or not.

We met this guy and his wife from New York....New Yorkers are usually dbags in our experience, and this guy was pretty close to fitting that description. They switched glasses and hats for the pic.

So graffiti on the walls is totally acceptable and completely everywhere in these bars! Someone in line to the girls bathroom had one so we took turns writing..... :)

We were beat by 10 pm....we had been up since 4:30 so we headed back towards the apartment and got dinner at 51 Taproom....and it was nice enough to eat on the patio! Oh yeah!

My sandwich was okay, fries were great and Steve's fried chicken over mashed potatoes was really good!