Spring Break in Nashville - March 2016

The storm before we left

Spring break 2016, Bryan and I were determined to go on a vacation that for just us. Up until this point, most of our trips together had been for family visits or friend's weddings. Not that they haven't been incredible, but we wanted something for us. We both had always talked about Nashville, so that was the plan. The morning before our trip, we got a snowstorm in

Denver, which isn't uncommon for spring. The storm dumped down inches of snow and cancelled a lot of flights that day, but it ended about mid-day so we knew our flights would be fine. Sure enough, they were......sort of. We arrived at the airport early, and because we had one of the first flights out that morning, there were a lot of people still in line, trying to reschedule from the day before. We found a trick to get our bags checked, and breeze through security so we could get breakfast, and get on the plane. Shortly after buckling in, I fell asleep. I was so excited the night before, I could hardly sleep, so I passed out right away.

Had to send drinks to the room!

About an hour later, I woke up to discover, we still hadn't left DIA. I broke down in tears - mainly from exhaustion. We had a layover in St. Louis, and I knew this delay would mess things up. We had spent so much money on the trip, I didn't want to miss a beat. Eventually, our flight got on it's way and they told us they would help us resolve it. As it turns out, there were several people from our DEN>STL flight also catching the flight to Nashville, so they held it. But we took so long, they ended up finally having to leave. When we landed in St. Louis they said they had re-booked us to go through Houston and then Nashvillle - landing at 9pm.....10 hours after our original landing! We decided this was just not worth it. We booked a rental car, pulled our bags off of the plane (which almost didn't happen in time) and hit the road! From St Louis to Nashville it was only a five hour drive, through Kentucky which we had never been - let's keep the adventure rolling! 

When we finally pulled up to our Hilton hotel in downtown Nashville, we were pretty exhausted! But, time for the party to start! We took a quick shower and headed out. We had never intended to get a rental car because we knew we would walk everywhere. Our first stop is a very popular place on Broadway, called Boot Country. Every day they have a sale where if you buy one pair of boots, you can get two for free!! We knew this going in so made it our first stop so we could wear our boots all weekend long. From there, we made a few other stops to have some drinks and find some dinner. We ate some incredible BBQ at Rippy's on Broadway and then made our way back to the hotel. By this point, it was fairly late and we were exhausted so we settled in for day two.......