Nashville Weekend

Thursday afternoon we drove over to Nashville with Doreen's patient for her Clinical exam Friday morning. This is the last step she has to pass before she can get a license to become a Dental Hygienist. She's so close!

Anyway, we got checked into our motel, which was right across the street from the Stadium where the Tennessee Titans play. Very cool!



After relaxing a bit, we took the route Doreen would have to take to go to the school, just to make sure nothing funky was up, then headed to the Spaghetti Factory for supper! Yum Yum!








We were so stuffed from supper, we walked along the river a bit. Got to take a peek inside Fort Nashborough and got Joelle & Natalie to pose with these characters for a pic. Then back to the room and beddy bye for everyone!













Doreen and her patient were up 5ish for breakfast and off to Orientation at the testing site. The girls and I rolled over and went back to sleep for a bit. Then up and breakfast and then swimming in the Guitar pool. Very cool!














Then we changed and grabbed a Taxi, a first for the girls, for the Adventure Science Museum, which had EVERYTHING in it. They had a ball climbing, rolling, crawling and learning about all sorts of stuff.










Here the two of them learned they can use a lever and a combined 110 pounds can pick up a car! They loved that.











We spent some time being 'space cadets!' Here they are in front of Saturn. They even got to do some simulated moon walking.















After testing was all done, Doreen came and picked us up and we went back to the motel to chill a bit and share about each other's day. Doreen did well, but thinks that she could have done more, and is now waiting for Monday to find out if she passed or not. Anticipation! Then we headed to eat dinner at El Ray's mexican restaurant. We walked around the capital a bit just to walk off some of what we ate!



On Saturday, after sleeping in, we went to the Nashville Zoo!

Here's Doreen and the girls with a very cool elephant in the background...













...and me and the girls with a giraffe trying to get some leaves just out of reach!










A Meerkat doing some people watching! Too cute!

















The girls and I bounced across this bridge in the jungle gym...














...and Doreen and the girls played spider girls crawling all over these multi-level, very cool, nets they have available to play on!
















Finished for the day. After seeing all we could see, doing all we could do, we were bushed. We headed out of the zoo, had dinner with some friends and got home about 11:20 at night - thankful to have had some time to have some family fun!