We woke up on the morning of Friday October 25th and got ready to move again. No, that wasn’t a typo. While we usually make our moves on Saturdays, we were traveling on Friday this time. Move days typically go smoothly for us but we never know when we will hit a snag and be delayed. We had plans for Saturday night in Nashville so we opted to move a day early to give ourselves plenty of time. Thankfully, things did go well and we arrived on Friday afternoon with no issues. We settled into our site at the Grand Ole RV Resort in Goodlettsville, TN, grabbed some dinner, and had a relaxing evening.
On Saturday, we had a little bit of time to kill in the morning and early afternoon so we went out to breakfast at Cracker Barrel then visited the GOODfest in the Park event going on at Moss-Wright Park. The park itself was very nice with a lot of paved area, restrooms, and a historic fort-like building. There were tons of vendors set up selling all kinds of items, food trucks (and my favorite- Kona Ice), dancing and live music, and a trick or treat area for the kids. We ended up buying an art print and some cute fall earrings.
We went back to the house for a little bit in the afternoon to spend some time with Harley and to take naps.
Saturday evening, we went into downtown Nashville for a hockey game. John doesn’t miss a lot about living in Ohio but he does miss going to the Columbus Blue Jackets games. We used to be season ticket holders and go all the time so not seeing a hockey game in person in over two years had been rough for him and it just so happened that the Jackets were playing at Nashville while we were in town!
We got there early and walked over to the food hall at Fifth & Broadway for dinner. John got a sandwich from Prince’s Hot Chicken and I had a lobster roll from one of the other vendors. While we were eating, we realized that the game started at 8:00 EASTERN which meant 7:00 Central which was in 15 minutes. We made a mad dash to the area and arrived just in time for the start of the game.
We have really enjoyed going to different sporting events this last year but this time was a little different as we were rooting against the home team. We ended up losing in overtime but it was still a good game and we had a blast.
The arena was really nice, too. It was very clean and the seats were roomy and cushioned! They had a live band playing during the period breaks so that was a lot of fun.
On Sunday, morning we lounged around the house a bit (we have bounced between Eastern and Central time several times in the last few weeks and we were out late because of the hockey game). We drove into the city for lunch at our favorite Nashville restaurant, Hattie B’s. I had the chicken sandwich Southern style (not spicy) and John got the medium chicken tenders (hot enough to make him sweat a little). For our sides we had pimento mac & cheese, fries, and cheese & bacon grits and for dessert we had banana pudding and peach cobbler. It was a lot of food and it was all delicious. We still managed to come in under $50 (we have definitely spent more on worse food) so it was a win.
After lunch, we needed to walk a little bit so we intended to visit the Nashville Farmer’s Market. When we arrived, however, we realized that they were having a book festival in the park near the market. We have NEVER been able to turn down festivals or books so this was perfect for us. We spent the afternoon meeting local authors, discovering new books, and browsing lots of book related merchandise and art exhibits. I just recently hit my reading goal for the year – 100 books!- and felt like rewarding myself. We found a booth selling miniature bookshelves with little tiny replica books. Since a lot of my reading this year has been Agatha Christie, I bought myself an Agatha Christie shelf. It’s absolutely adorable and the perfect thing to commemorate my awesome reading year.
In preparation for Halloween, we spent a lot of time during the week watching spooky-themed movies (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Death Becomes Her, A Haunting in Venice, and more) and on Tuesday night, we carved the pumpkins that we had picked at the patch in Indiana a few weeks ago. We sat opposite each other outside and secretively made our creations while listening to live music at the campground. When we were all finished, we cleaned up and waited until dark when we lit up our Jack-o-Lanterns and showed them to each other. I had picked a green pumpkin at the patch but it had ripened and turned kind of a weird speckled orange and green so I painted it with some leftover craft paint and carved it to look like a cat face. John intricately carved his to look like our house! We had a lot of fun and I think they both turned out super cute. We ended the night with carry out from Hattie B’s.
We were also celebrated our wedding anniversary and Halloween while in Nashville but we kept things really low key. We spent our anniversary just relaxing at home and watching movies. I made a homecooked dinner of smoked sausage and veggie with a maple dijon glaze and John mixed us up a couple of drinks and we lounged on the couch with Harley and the cats. On Halloween, it was rainy and gross so we spent the evening checking out a few hobby/comic shops looking for cards for the game Lorcana, which John has recently started playing. We picked up Hattie B’s (for the third time!) and had a quiet dinner at home while watching the Halloween episodes of John’s favorite television show, Brooklyn 9-9.
And with that, it was time to move again. Next stop, Birmingham, Alabama!
