McKay has to plan a few trips to earn The Congressional Awards. He is working on the Bronze Certificate right now. His Validator is Kent Butler, who probably loves to travel and plan vacations more than anyone we know. He met with McKay and taught him what he does to plan. He also told him about all his favorite places in Nashville.
Dad and McKay worked on planning the trip together. Nashville was the destination because we already had a trip schedule to go there because dad had two work trips in a row that he wasn't going to be able to come home for, so we met him in Nashville.
McKay and I of course had to stop at Buccees on the way. We listened to The Count of Monte Cristo on the way there.
View from our hotel. It was pretty cool.
Checking out downtown Nashville.
Broadway street was pretty interesting. Lots of interesting people watching.
They had a Savannah Candy Company, so we definitely stopped there.
Random fort we came across.
Josh was excited to check out the boots.
McKay planned everything, so dinner was at Morgan Wallen's restaurant. It's called "This Bar."
The food was good.
There were lots of bands and live music everywhere. It was so fun!
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The last time we had donuts at The Donut Den, McKay was 5 and we went through Nashville on our way to Utah one summer. It was National Donut Day and they were ranked in the top 10 donut places in the U.S.
The County Music Hall of Fame.
I was there for Taylor Swift.
My dad was a Hank Williams fan.
I'm not sure why Elvis stuff was in the Country Music Hall of Fame, but it was cool.
Elvis' car. It has a TV in it among other things. It ws pretty cool.
Heading to the Grand Ole Opry.
Palmer and I took this same picture when Josh and I came to Nashville with him for a kicking camp when he was in high school.
Looking at the rooms the celebrities stay in when they come to the Opry.
That night we went to Luke Bryan's restaurant. Once again, live music, but this one had lots of screens of football games on it. It was awesome.
Another yummy dinner.
We had to try this place out!!
I was yummy.
McKay was excited about the gym in our hotel.
McKay forgot his church clothes, so he wore dads, with his sweats...
Dad wore one of his work shirt. We went to church right by the Nashville temple.
That day we headed to The Hermitage. It was the home of President Andrew Jackson.
It was pretty interesting.
McKay was super into it.
We head dinner at Hattie B's Chicken, and then headed home! McKay did a great job planning our trip!
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