After Memphis, we headed to Nashville to spend time with our good friends, Rich Perryman and Debbie Hearn. As usual, our hosts showed us great hospitality and a great time! We spent the first night with Rich and Debbie at their home and parked the RV at a campground near the Opryland Hotel. There was no way we were going to be able to drive our RV up the narrow, winding roads to Rich's house!
To our delight, Rich's daughter, Cindy, her husband James, and children Elijah and Jennifer, came to see everyone at the house. We hadn't seen them for a while, so it was nice to catch up. The kids, ages 9 and 6, were so cute and challenged me to a game of foosball. Jennifer and I teamed up against Elijah who was pretty good at foosball, and finally won the 3rd game. That's when we told him "Girls Rule"!
Rich and Debbie had obtained football tickets for the "Bills vs Titans" game. We took the "Music City Queen", a boat that takes you right to the football stadium. It was really fun, with good food and a good view of the downtown Nashville skyline. Friends, Dawn and Dave also joined us. It was nice to spend time with them again. Unfortunately, the Bills got beat up pretty bad and later Rich and Debbie made us put on Titan jerseys for a picture. Talk about rubbing it in! Debbie and Rich also suggested a great restaurant to celebrate my birthday which happened to fall when we were there. It was the "Aquarium Restaurant", and true to it's name, it had a huge floor to ceiling aquarium in the middle of the main room, complete with large fish, sharks, and eels! Nothing like good food and good friends!
Upon leaving Nashville, we headed to Knoxville to visit Art's daughter Jill, daughter Kristi, son-in-law Wayne, grandson Brandon, and granddaughter Cayla. It was wonderful to see them all! The first night we met at a restaurant and tried to catch up. Lots of laughs! The second night we went to the restaurant where Cayla works while she goes to college at UT. She was our waitress and did a superb job! Brandon lives in Chatanooga, where he works and goes to school. Jill invited us to join everyone in Knoxville for Thanksgiving, so we are going to take her up on that. We are looking forward to spending more time with our family!
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