Alright...continuing on...after our 7 hour drive up through the entire state of Alabama, Lexi and I got to Nashville mid-afternoon on Sunday. I'm a bit spoiled that I went to college in Nashville, and still have a lot of people and places I love there, and shortly after I left for NYC my sister moved there for college as well, and she loves it enough not to have left yet. So this part of the trip was jam packed with friends to see, restaurants to visit, and shopping to be done!
My sister knows me well...our first stop...SATCO for dinner with some of her friends...plenty warm enough to sit outside and enjoy our food...yummmmmmm.
After dinner we drove downtown to have a quick stroll around. So classy.
After a morning of shopping at a few US specialties that I do miss (Banana, Gap, etc...) we stopped for a bit at Lipscomb so I could see the campus. While some things are just the same...this building is where I lived for 2 years...and at least from this angle it looks identical to how it did then...they have definitely added quite a few new buildings and I nearly got lost in the Student Center...
While this may not look like the prettiest restaurant ever...it is hands down some of the best southern cooking anywhere. We were on the early side of the dinner crowd, but shortly after I took this picture there was not an empty seat anywhere. You can sit up on the porch (as we all did) or inside at a couple tables, or in these various tables in the yard. The service basically consists of someone coming out of the house and yelling off the porch "all y'all doin ok??" and everyone yells back "yes" or "we'd like more sweet tea" etc...and it is fantastic.
This is the menu...sticks to the southern basics...everything is amazing.
Poppyseed chicken, mashed potatoes and brown gravy, and corn salad...so so so good. I'm thinking poppyseed chicked might need to be a meal I attempt for my friends here...I should investigate how many of those ingredients we have...
Fresh blackberry cobbler...oh gosh.
Also...extra family bonus in Nashville these days! Our cousin (on the left) is now my sister's roommate, so we had lots of fun times hanging out together. (She's not technically our "cousin" I suppose...but one of those...parents are best friends so we've always called them aunt and uncle kind of cousins...doesn't really matter...)
After dinner we drove out to Leiper's Fork...listening to bluegrass and watching the sunset over the horse pastures the whole way.
Leiper's Fork
I have no idea what this is exactly...it's this super small building on a fence...with tiny rocking chairs on the porch. Adorable.
The next day I got to spend the afternoon with these lovely ladies! Sadly their husbands were at work...so it was just a girls and kids afternoon. We've all been friends since our freshman year of college and now they have little growing families! Andrea, on the left, had her 2nd little boy about 36 hours after we took this picture!
Andrea's other little boy who's now 2...and Tiffany's 5 week old!
My last night in Nashville we had a wonderful dinner at Rolf and Daughters.
These two like it a lot...and they were correct...it's delicious.
And my mom had driven in to overlap me for this one night! She and my sister were then heading to Texas for some Memorial Day weekend fun with my mom's college friends, but it was really nice to all be able to have a nice dinner together.
That's about it! The next morning we got up early and drove me back to Atlanta to catch my flight back to Vienna...not quite as smooth as the trip down...delayed flights, missed connections, etc...but I made it as did my luggage, so it's all good. I'm trying to fully get over my jet lag and catch up on everything for classes this week. Although here in Austria we have another public holiday later this week, so that will be helpful. Such a quick but wonderful trip to the States, and a great opportunity to see lots of friends in such a short time!
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