just another morning here

So, to save myself from getting boring on social networking sites, counting down the days until our trip, I am writing a blog post, so that I can talk to myself and get rid of the need to tell everyone how excited I am. I promise that after this I will shut up until half term and not bore everyone silly by blethering on about it.

A month or so before Christmas I spotted the 2 Friends tour online and thought it would be amazing to be able to go – Amy Grant and Michael W Smith have both been my favourites since I was about Abbie’s age! Shelved the idea as being too wild and expensive, though. Somehow, it came up again after Christmas, and somehow we ended up discussing it as a serious possibility, then somehowended up booking it! Steve did the bulk of the work which makes a pleasant change as usually it’s me who does all that research type stuff.

I spent the first day of thinking about it being ridiculously excited, I can’t actually remember being so excited since being pregnant! Other than our honeymoon holiday (which was a week staying with my grandmother in France so doesn’t really count!), Steve and I haven’t ever been away together for more than a couple of nights – ok, this is only just more than a couple of nights but it is in America too, so constitutes a holiday instead of a weekend break! Steve has never been to the states, and I went once when I was 12 so can’t really remember that much about it. It is a bit of an extravagance – we’ll be camping for any holidays during the rest of the year! Still, it’s about the best Christmas/anniversary/birthday present I could ever have hoped for

Anyway, Steve and I have a draft itinerary planned, which we did while listening to Michael W Smith and Amy Grant’s latest albums online, just to get us in the mood It consists of:
Saturday – arrive/check-in have dinner somewhere.
Sunday – Music row/wander around/eat out a lot
Mon – Segway tour? and Bluebird Cafe
Tues - Cenetennial park and Parthenon then Amy and MWS
Wed - Lane Motor Museum/lunch then drive out to Franklin for dinner or come back to Nashville
Thur – Check-out/late lunch/airport … travelling back will take until Friday morning.
As I’ve typed that I’ve realised we’ve forgotten the Country Music Museum and Hall of Fame which is a must see … will have to cram that in somewhere!
And I confess I have checked the geocaching map for Nashville, it would be rude not to find at least one or two while in the US!

The children are trying to plan themselves a break too – Grandma is happy to have them but they are trying to complicate matters … we will see! Now all we have to do is wait until February – not long

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