4th of July in Nashville

We took a quick trip to Nashville over the 4th of July weekend. It was great fun. We were able to go to the temple which was really nice, especially because the one in Atlanta has been closed for the last year! Casey has a friend from BYU that now lives in Nashville and she was kind of enough to watch Claire for us. It was such a blessing!


It was a little windy.
Then we went to check out downtown. There was a moose convention, an international moose convention.
This is what the fireworks/concert area looked like on the 3rd of July. Very nice. There was a free concert, but we didn't stay for that.

I wanted to get a picture of Claire in her cute 4th of July dress, but of course she did not want to cooperate.

This picture pretty much sums up what the rest of church was like.

Then we went on a little walk around Vanderbilt. Very nice campus.


This is what the same park looked like on the 4th of July. Between us and the stage WAY back there was wall-to-wall people. There was no place to sit and hardly any place to stand. We ended up going home early as Claire was really struggling.

On our way back to the car we found this lovely fountain. Claire loves all forms of water. This was the highlight of the trip for Claire.

We parked near the State Capitol.

On Monday we went to a plantation, Belle Meade, in Nashville. It was very beautiful and very well restored.
This was our tour guide.
Claire didn't like the tour much. Its hard when your one and a half and you can't touch anything. She loved running around outside though!