Nashville. Fan Fair, 2010 Dos

Well since I feel like I've been procrastinating enough I think it's time for part 2 of my blog! finally!

Day 3
Yikes.
So the beginning of the trip wasn't too bad, the only day I was worried about was Wednesday.....We managed to do everything and possibly more than I planned. So here is goes.....We and head downtown to the Country Music Hall of Fame for the Jake Owen signing. After about an hour of waiting in line we finally start moving and it's time to meet Jake!After we're all done there we head downtown to watch the CMA music fest kickoff parade! I thought it would be a little longer but it was really neat seeing a parade of country stars going down lower broadway!
After the parade was over we headed to the Chevy Stage right outside the Bridgestone Arena to see David Nail!He was even wearing a Miranda Lambert shirt!!!! :)
After seeing David Nail was kind of a blur, I think we went over to the Hard Rock to lunch and maybe a little shopping downtown. While we were having lunch I remember a pretty bad storm rolled through and was happy we weren't outside in it!One of the things I was looking forward to the most was the CMT music awards. I was excited because it was my first awards show I have ever been to!Our seats weren't that great but it was still really neat to have a great view of the stage and see where all the stars were sitting! My favorite performance of the night was when Keith Urban and John Mayer sang together. I still can't believe I witnessed two guitar gods playing together. Wow.We left as Lady Antebellum closed the show so we could make it to our next destination......wait not bed time yet?!?!

It's time for Dierks Bentley's Up on the Ridge/Last call ball 6!......well I don't think those should ever be combined again! I love Dierks and all but it was such a long day made longer......got back to the hotel at like 3 a.m.....Ok enough whining lol
Loved hearing mostly all of the new songs off his new bluegrass/country cd and some grassed up tunes of his own like Free and Easy :)

When the show was over it seemed like we waited FOREVER in line.....wait it was because we did! It was great finally meeting Ronna the DB congress site runner, seeing David from KY and a whole bunch of familiar faces :) Including Kristin from Indiana! Finally got to meet the man at about 2:30 in the morning. Hardly remember what I said to him but he remembered me by my shirt of course that said I'm with the Band on it. He asked me when I saw him last and I said in Purdue, IN but he was like nooooo when was the last time I met you? Oh yeah Harris, MI! Then I told him I threw him off by wearing a U2 shirt that night lol. He thanked us for staying so late and then we went back to the hotel.

I thought I would look way worse than I do in this picture.....being that I was so sweaty all day and tired. Wow what a long day!! I'm getting tired again just thinking about it! And that leads to me having to make a Part Tres for this blog. Until next time!

Nashville. Fan Fair. 2010.

It was over a month ago but I thought I would share our trip to Nashville finally on here! Probably one of the hottest, tiring weeks ever but it was one of the best weeks ever! My mom, my boyfriend Dave and I started heading down Sunday night, which continued Monday morning after stopping outside of Louisville, KY to sleep.
First thing we do when we get to Nashville is go downtown to see what it looked like. After the flooding in early may I was kind of curious what it did to my poor Nashville. Everything seemed to look alright! The same Nashville as I always remembered! It did seem kind of funny going there and not going to the Grand Ole Opry house, Grand Ole Opry Hotel or Opry Mills. We made the most of it however, just spending a lot of time doing other things downtown.
Mom and I found Elvis lol
After checking into the hotel we heading down to Greer Stadium for the City Of Hope Softball Challenge. It was kind of in a shady area but we were alright when we got to the arena. Except the fact we almost got plowed into by a semi.......anyway.......the game was soooo fun! Would love to go again! After the game we went back to the hotel and rested a little before hitting up a Nashville Walmart to buy Dierks Bentley's Up on the Ridge cd at midnight. That CD remained in the CD player almost the whole time we were in Nashville lol!

Day 2
We got up early hoping we could go to the Loveless Cafe for breakfast. We got there and there was a line outside, so we stood in it. About 15 min later someone asks us if we want to buy a ticket, we soon find out Terri Clark's fan club party was being held there! So no Loveless Cafe ended up with Sonic for breakfast. We went to the Nashville Zoo afterwards and had a good time visiting my favorites, the meerkats!When we got to the elephant exhibit there was one of the zookeepers giving a lecture with his elephant. It was very neat! The elephant even kicked a football! When we were all done with the zoo we had tickets for the Tuesday night opry. It was being held somewhere else because they were still renovating the Opry House from the flood, don't quite remember the name of it right now.....but they combined two shows into one. It was a good show with The Band Perry, Trisha Yearwood, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood and of course Little Jimmy Dickens! The Band Perry Josh Turner Trisha Yearwood
Carrie Underwood
Stay tuned for more!