S T R A C K E L J A H N: Music City, Nashville TN

After leaving the foothills of NC we headed to Music City in Tennessee.

Our drive took us up to Johnson City because i-40 was closed due to a landslide. So our 5.5hr drive turned into almost 7 hours! (but it felt like 10!)

We arrived at the Opry Land Hotel while it was still decorated for Christmas. It was beautiful! The hotel was HUGE! We checked in and pretty much went straight to bed.

The next morning was the start of the conference we were attending with three other ladies from our church. It was the Children's Pastors Conference.

There were some GREAT resources and we had fun spending some ministry money and gaining lots of ideas to bring back to use in our children's ministry! There were also some disappointing "sessions" where an unbiblical perspective on parenting, men and women, and ministry was taught. We are praying that God will allow us to speak this truth to the church about this conference, and also to point them in a different direction.

The trip to Nashville all in all was a good trip. It was great working with the ladies from our church and finding our VBS curriculum. Also, enjoyed eating at "the aquarium" where we ate and watched a guitar shark swim in the tank!

We ended up staying a few extra days to celebrate our two year anniversary...but we moved to the Sheraton. We actually enjoyed the KING size bed more than the double at the Opry Hotel and it was more comfy for me too... after all I am like the princess and the pea! (o:

It was great to relax and spend one-on-one time with Michael. We feel blessed to have received some Anniversary money and used it on this portion of our trip. We went to the hardrock in downtown Nashville for steaks, the wax museum and cooters/dukes of hazard museum.

It was a great trip. Then we headed to Louisville for Michael to take a class at SBTS toward finishing his degree!