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We tried Creekside Supper Club for the first time and had a great dinner. Popovers are amazing. Ribeye delicious. Roasted corn chowder. Butter Cake for dessert is like the best shortcake you’ll ever have. 🍽🤤

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Our last stop before leaving Nashville was a backstage tour at the Grand Ole Opry. We got to see the artists entrance, the Opry post office, all of the various dressing rooms including Roy Acuff’s which you can even go into.

Grand Ole Opry auditorium interior with empty wooden pew-style seats facing a red-curtained stage during a soundcheck rehearsal.Brick-walled Grand Ole Opry backstage hallway with wooden pews and framed performance photos on the wallsGrand Ole Opry Post Office wall of numbered brass mailboxes 100 through 217 set in dark wood panelingYoung woman with hands on her cheeks smiling with delight at her reflection in a Hollywood-style dressing room mirror at the Grand Ole OpryFamily of four taking a selfie on the Grand Ole Opry stage with the lit marquee sign visible behind them

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Escape Game: Timeliner

We went to The Escape Game in Nashville and did the Timeliner: Train Through Time room. We did it with another family, a dad and three boys. The room was really cool and definitely hard enough, but not too hard. I’d like to say that we finished it but they gave us a bit of buffer time to get the door open, so technically I would say we did not. But we still had a great time doing it. Room 41!

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We visited the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. It was really cool to see so much history. The exhibits were fabulous as well. And some exceptionally wild outfits, cars, and stories.

Wall covered in dozens of framed gold and platinum record awards at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in NashvilleMuseum display of Chet Atkins guitars including an orange Gretsch hollowbody, with a biographical placard in the background.Black 1980 Pontiac Trans Am with Bandit lettering on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Smokey and the Bandit II exhibit behind itFamily of four smiling in front of a wall covered in gold and platinum record awards at the Country Music Hall of Fame

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We stopped into Goo Goo Chocolate and took the Taste of Goo Goo class where we all got to make our own Goo Goo Cluster by hand. I didn’t know any of the history of Goo Goo Clusters but they were the very first candy with more than one ingredient! The first candy bar!

Four people wearing Goo Goo Chocolate Co aprons and blue gloves pose at a stainless steel workbench with handmade Goo Goo Clusters on trays.Four people in aprons posing in front of a What A Cluster Goo Goo Nashville Tennessee mural, holding branded signs and props.

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Spotted the Nashville Party Wagon! 🚜

Green John Deere tractor pulling a flatbed wagon of passengers through downtown Nashville with a Lawrence Record Shop ghost sign visible behind.
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Ryman Auditorium

We visited the Ryman Auditorium and saw the birthplace of country and bluegrass music. It seems fitting that the Ryman was originally built as a tabernacle, because walking around it and thinking of all the amazing performances that have been there felt nearly spiritual. 🎶

Red brick Victorian Gothic concert hall at dusk with arched windows and triangular gable, surrounded by Nashville skyscrapersEmpty curved wooden pew seating surrounds a hardwood stage where a few people stand near the front apron under stage lightsEmpty wooden pew seating in a historic curved auditorium with arched windows and a chandelier overheadView from the stage looking out at the empty wooden pew seating and ornate balcony of the historic 1892 auditorium

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Delightful cappuccino at Drug Store Coffee in the Noelle Hotel in downtown Nashville. ☕️

Cappuccino in a white Drug Store Coffee cup and saucer on a wooden table beside a MacBook Pro, marble staircase in the background.
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We’re in Nashville so of course we should go to the Wildhorse Saloon and learn how to do the Boot Scoot ’n Shuffle! We all took their complimentary class together and were scootin’ and shufflin’ with the best of them. Mazie was a natural!

Crowd line dancing at Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville with Steven Metz band performing on a lit stage behind them
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Space Camp

We had a fun weekend at Family Space Camp! 🚀 Our program included runs in the Multi Axis Trainer, the 5D weightlessness trainer. We ran an entire simulation of a Space Shuttle mission where Tyler was EECOM, Mazie PAYCOM, Tammy CAPCOM, and I was FDO. I got to do the countdown to launch. 🤩 We got to see an incredibly impressive planetarium showing as well as a great IMAX experience on the International Space Station. We also learned a bunch about NASA’s Artemis program. And the whole time we got to see a real Saturn V and Saturn IB rocket, as well as a capsule that went into space and a moon rock. And we got great astronaut suits.