Nashville for New Years

Nashville/Nash Vegas/Music City celebrates New Years' Eve by watching the guitar drop.  Appropriate.  Similar to Times Square, downtown Nashville featured a party with a huge stage and three live acts. Rob and I got there early.

Enjoyed a very expensive beer in a Honky Tonk with great live music. We camped out downtown watching the show with a bottle of wine and a blanket across our laps. The two bands we saw were rockin'. Saw Jonny Lang play with the funk band. Nashville is in the Central Time Zone so Rob and I had our own private New Year's countdown to 11pm Nashville time in honor of our Maine New Year. After that we headed back to our Couchsurfing host's house, avoiding the traffic, missing the "guitar drop" and the fireworks but meeting our host Aaron at a "reasonable hour". 

Rob had an idea of throwing blown eggs with wishes for the future written on slips of paper sealed inside them with wax off of the bridge downtown Nashville at dawn on New Year's Day. We prepared the eggs at 1am. Our host Aaron took our photo: Happy New Year 2010!

Rob wanted to carry on his tradition of watching the sun rise on New Year's Day,

Unfortunately, there was a huge cloud bank to the east, so we didn't see the actual sunrise. But we knew the time of sunrise was 7am so we watched the clock and threw the eggs as soon as it was time because it was SO cold on the bridge.

Did you know that Nashville has a full scale replica of the Parthenon?

The city capital was grand and definately worth seeing, although closed tight on New Years' Day.

The second evening at Aaron's was spent most enjoyably! We watched Persepolis (highly recommended) and ate a decadent chocolate cake! Milk out of wine glasses, that's how we class it up.

Aaron is a photographer (check out his website). He's very immersed in studying many aspects that I haven't thought about for years and many I have never heard of.  He was an inspiration as to talk photography shop with.

The rockstar, music group, couchsurfing picture.

Rob's ready to go! (Well, to go sliding off Falkor anyway, he found that hoods are very slippery and is now impressed by model's ability to stay sitting on hoods).