Nashville Reunion

Every two years my extended family gets together somewhere for a destination family reunion which gives us a chance to visit w/ aunts, uncles, cousins, and new cousins that otherwise we probably would never get to see. This year Nashville was selected as the destination. We braved the 12 hour car trip (in one day both ways) and made our way there. The trip was fun, but not without issues. The first morning we were there Sam was acting like he did not feel well and then began dry heaving. He is physically unable to vomit due to the surgery he had for reflux as a baby. So he and Tony stayed at the hotel most of the day where he then proceeded to have diarrhea all day :) Ollie and I went to the zoo for the afternoon and then they were able to join us for dinner that evening. The next day Sam was feeling better and we played at Bicentennial Park and then had a picnic lunch there with the whole family. Sat afternoon we took a river boat ride on the Cumberland river. It began raining half-way through, but there was plenty of covering and a country band playing on board. The weather was cool, very enjoyable. That evening we ate at the Aquarium restaurant. The next day, Sunday, Sam was complaining of his feet hurting and refused to walk, at all. I mean he insisted we carry him 2 ft if he had to go that far. We could not figure out what was going on and this was not like him. So, ultimately we decided to head home a day early. There wasn't much left to do anyway and we definitely did not want to be carrying him around all day. The next day he was fine, who knows :) I have posted a bunch of pics on this one, just realized there aren't any of Sam. He wasn't real into having his picture taken, he was either sick or busy.


Ollie at the Zoo

The Loveless cafe, Tony's favorite part of the trip. According to Martha Stewart this place has the best biscuits she has ever tasted. I must agree they were pretty good.

Bicentennial park. This is actually the capital building looking up from the park. Sam insisted on climbing up all the steps to get up here, I think Tony said there were 150 steps. If you look to the far right in the middle of the picture you can see Tony and Sam.

Ollie was fearless with these fountains

He definitely played hard that morning

The Music City Queen

This was our group minus one family who left early that morning.