Sunday, July 27, 2008

Nashville Vacation

What Fun! Well for the girls that is! Gregg had a conference all week in Nashville for his new teaching position and Kinsley and I decided to make a little vacation out of the free trip! YEAH for us! We stayed from Monday to Friday and literally had a blast! Kins was such a good traveler, thanks to our new built-in DVD player in the X-Terra. She watched TV the whole way up there. Once we dropped Gregg off, Kinsley and I headed for the zoo! The Nashville Zoo is so big and really nice....they have expanded so there were tons more and even a carousel (a big plus for Kinsley) It was a bit too much for Kinsley on this VERY HOT DAY. We were there over 3 hours...so it was cutting into nap time as well. We shopped in the gift shop to cool off, ride the carousel for another break and then we even ate lunch there....So we took plenty of fun breaks and we had such a wonderful day!

We love meerkats! She did not want to leave!



She loves reptiles....Once again, I have no idea how she is my child! She wants to touch them, hold them and kiss them! YUCK!

We are in front of a HUGE anaconda!!!

She even touched the snakes skin!

This ostrich was right beside us...and I am pretty sure he wanted to take a bite of us!

Beautiful! There are some things in life, that you just think - WOW!

Once again, there are some things in life that you just say WOW!
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Alligators! Another favorite!



It was so hot!!!

Fun times!
Taking a lunch break! We stayed there extra long to have a much needed recovery time- It was only 95 degrees outside!
She fell asleep before we even got out of the parking lot!

We hit the shops today! We stopped off at the Chocolate Store...She was so excited to pick out a treat! Triple marshmallow, dipped in chocolate and rolled in sprinkles! She loved it! It took her 3 days to eat! hehe

Eating mom's apple....Snickers!




Spent the day swimming!

We went to the Rain Forest Cafe for Dinner, she loved it! Except, when the thunderstorm started (every 30 minutes) she goes, "Let's get out of here!" I cracked up!


This was literally at my head all during dinner...It moved and I swear at one time, it winked at me! Kinsley loved being so close and it looking around. She saw this first and ran for it, the hostess let us sit right beside it.


The Cafe, she kept saying day after day, lets go back to the animal restaurant!

She may look distraught, but she really was just talking about it!



The Rainforest Cafe is attached to the mall, so of course, we shopped! This was a train that went all through the huge Opry Mills Mall.

Kinsley and Gregg went the Aquarium Sting Ray Reef and rode the carousel while I shopped around!

I took a picture of her when I got back - you would have thought I had been gone for days!!! She was so happy to see me! hehe

I told her that I was going to the Disney store and asked if she wanted to come and of course she did. They were having a huge sale, so we got some things and Kinsley wanted to hold her bag.

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Hanging out in the hotel, having a little snack - all laid back, watching TV...She was really lived up this vacation!

Our last day, Kinsley and I went to the Discovery Center, it is like the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, but I would say geared to younger children...And Kinsley loved - loved - loved it!




She loved playing this, and I showed her that their was music there to read and play. So I did it! It was Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and I sang while I played...She was quite impressed! But not the other visitors, they did not even ask for an encore! In fact, they did not even ask me to sign an autograph! But when Kinsley got up there, she drew a crowd! I was beat by a 2 year old!


She stayed at this area for an hour...You put the food on the conveyor belt (that was my job she gave me)....You rolled the food down, then you scanned it and put it in the grocery bag. She did this over and over and over! It was so cute!






Dave and Busters! TOO FUN!

Clear the road!




We had a great family trip....It was nice getting a way one last time before we head back to school. I start on Monday!!! Kids come August 1st! I am still in shock!