We arrived in Nashville in the early evening and immediately after checking into the Music City Hostel, we got gussied up and hit the town. It was about a 25 min walk to "the strip". After seeing Broadway st lit up with glowing signs for bar after bar after bar with live music in every one, it was clear why this place is nicknamed both "NashVegas" and "Music City". After a quick walk around Lea took initiative and decided to go to a brewhouse with 70 beers on tap! Taylor and I enjoyed a couple of refreshing Blue Moons (with an orange slice-of course) and decided this was going to be a night of no expectations. We wanted the night to take us wherever it was gonna. Our next stop was to The Stage, recommended to us by a special friend of Lea's ;) An amazing live band was playing that had toured with Kenny Rogers in the UK! They had a dance contest going, with a little dancing leprechaun ;) and between country rock singalongs like "I've Got Friends in Low Places" stories were told, crackin' us up.
*One tequilla shot later* Guess whose idea that was? Just guess...lol
We needed a change of scenery so we headed down to a place where no one was dancing, but a cover of "Blister In the Sun" enticed us to stop in. Then a cover of "Chicken Fried" kept us around for the song, but not much longer. No one could match our energy, well maybe the old lady who did a strip tease on stage-yikes....
"Callin' Baton Rouge" rolled into the streets from Tootsies and I hollered at the bouncer to hurry on up! and check our IDs so I could jam out. The song ended soon, but the band was rockin' so we ordered a couple of Buds (our first ever believe it or not!) and rocked out to more covers of Mama Rockin and Chicken Fried.
Our hunger took over so we set out to find some food. On our way back down the strip we stopped at this corner with people dancing to a guy called the Broadway Rappa who freestyled nonstop while jammin on his mini set. What fun!! Kelly Kelly she shakes her jelly...pretty ladies all around, show me how you get down! lol
The smell of onion rings floated out of a bar/restaurant called the Cadillac Ranch. It was good enough for us! We walked in past the crowd of rowdy twenty somethings and soon realized that this was a dance club! We grooved over to the dance floor when a couple of young gents looked at us and said "woah, take us where YOU'RE going". So we grabbed them by the hands and took them to the dance floor where we danced all night long. What a fun time!!
We reached our goals of the evening which were to get a free drink, get home by 3am and have a freaking blast!! SUCCESS!!
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