Viva Nashvegas !

I went to Vegas this past weekend with some docents 60yrs+ to Nashville, TN. So, if you have thoughts about TN being cheezy...it ain't cheezy. LOVED IT. Yes, I do tend to get over excited about new places and think " Oh, I could live there"...Nashville is truly awesome. No, I don't do the whole Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Mel Tillis, Vince Gill, Conway Twitty, Keith Urban, Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers,etc.  I just have never had a passion for country western music. However, I can tolerate it. Nashville, its just beautiful ...green lush...etc. The mountains are beautiful...need I go on ? No, but here  was our agenda

We met at the High Museum and then traveled to Nashville.

Swanky Hotel

Why do I only take one picture...it was really nice

We arrived rested for 15 minutes and headed out for drinks and dinner. We had drinks at a very nice Hotel across the street from ours. Yes, when surround by 60 yr old + drinkers you learn a lot about them. I would say these people were all very very wealthy and are world travelers. They have a great fondness for the fine arts and spent a great deal of time talking about plays and musicals they had seen in downtown Atlanta. There is a time and a season for everyone and I can barely make my butt down to The High.

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Nashville Visitors Center

We then walked down Honky Tonk Alley (Nash Vegas) amongst the 20 something smokers and partiers and made our way to a restaurant. I had Mac and Cheese with Chicken. I had to stop halfway when I realized that I am in fact one year older in a few days and my days of heavy pasta and sauce are over.....

The large hallway....again why did I not take more pictures !!!

The wood floors were spectacular. The pieces of wood turned up on their sides...very very cool !

The next morning we went across the street to The Frist museum which was an 1930's ish Art Deco Post Office. It was soooo awesome ! We had a brief history about the museum itself and then took a very VERY long tour of the Kandinsky Collection. Um good to spend $750 on a trip only to learn that I am not really into Kandinsky. I liked his works on glass and his paintings, but his lines and circles....no...not for me.  I would post pics of the work, but no cameras. However our docent could use a flashlight on his work. Nobody really cared for her. She was nice and knowledgeable, but nobody likes to stand around and hear someone talk about a piece of art for 15 minutes...NEXT 

After the museum we went to Vanderbilt University. No Gloria no Anderson Cooper...just a very beautiful college. They have an art museum on the Peabody side of the campus and we took a very cool tour of its collection above and then inside the vault. I got to see some Polaroids that Andy Warhol took of Bianca Jagger and OJ etc. I don't think anyone was enthused as I was !!! The art exhibit up front was I AM UNBEATABLE .

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We were all very touched by this exhibit. Had I been even more tired than I already was I would have bawled my eyes out.
NEXT 

It had a Georgian Architecture theme to it and the Tudor Rose everywhere...

We then again rest for about 15 minutes and we are off to dinner. I return to my hotel room exhausted.
The next morning we are off to visit  Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art museum.

Here are some photos above of that and then on to Nashville's very own Parthenon. It was the centennial celebration of the state of Tennessee. So, Nashville built a huge Parthenon. It was pretty bizarre, but had some great American artists on the inside. Athena was cool and yet freaky at the same time....

I came home to this .....I wanted to cry....can you tell what animal hit it ?