National FCCLA Conference in Nashville, Tennessee!

My FCCLA group that I love! Minus our wonderful advisor who was taking the picture!

I have been so busy with the past two weeks with trips that this has been the only time that I can finally post things about my trips! Well two weeks ago I went with my FCCLA group to Nashville for the National FCCLA Conference and it was so much fun! We were all in different competitions and five of us got gold (including me) and three of us got silver. I was very proud of how well we did with the competitions but there was so much more that I enjoyed then the competing aspect. The Gaylord Opryland Hotel (where we stayed) was huge! It had its own rain forest and mini village inside it... and of course my group and I managed to get lost on more than a few occasions. Also downtown Nashville has a lot of bars (which I wasn't so surprised) and most of them had live bands playing in them. It really made me feel like I was in the Music City.

Downtown Nashville!

Ok... Now to start from the beginning! Day 1 was full of traveling with these people which was quite crazy and really fun! I have never been on a trip with friends before and never realized how much fun going on a trip can be.

These two crazy people (Nicole and Ashley) were my travel buddies!

Boise to Tennessee! (we were slightly bored)

When we got to the hotel that we were going to stay at for the night we were completely exhausted and pretty much went to sleep (after a lot of talking.. we are girls after all). The next morning we arrived at the Opryland hotel and put our luggage away in a room and we were off to see the Grand Ole Opry.

I was very happy! :)

On the outside the Opry looks really normal and brick... sort of boring to the eye. But when you get inside then you know it is definitely a concert house for country music. Now me not being a really big country fan found the house interesting. During the tour I realized how much this concert house means to some and it is quite amazing. The tour was really well done and I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of country music or someone who finds it some what interesting.

Don't it look fancy!

Downtown Nashville, Music City, it is called and I completely agree. When walking downtown one of the days in Nashville I could hear country music being played constantly in all the bars. It wasn't the cheap stereos blasting but real live country music. I thought this was really cool and got me into the country music mood. While in downtown we saw some pretty cool sites.

This was the Country Music Hall of Fame

This was a really cool building that was all fancy and wavy!

They kept on leaving me since I was taking too many pictures!

This was a train station but is now a hotel! I really wanted to go inside it!

Close up word picture! :) Everybody needs one of these!

Elvis was everywhere in Nashville, which is weird since he isn't a country singer...

Nashville is a pretty cool and relaxed place to be and I would write more about it but I don't know what else to say... so with that said MORE RANDOM PICTURES! :)

Big guitar! and the Grand Ole Opry in the background!

All of our feet on the old Opry stage

Ooh look at those beautiful faces!

Really good aquarium restaurant we went to one of the nights!

And we are walking... We did a lot of walking.

Mother of Records!

Naked people statue fighting over a circle.. no big deal! :)

Well that is all for now! My future blog posts won't be as random as this one, I just had a lot of pictures that I wanted to show! I hope everyone is having a LOVELY day!

Ta Ta for now!

I thought this picture was cool :)