Nashville Cats

Nashville Cats play clean as country water. Nashville Cats play wild as mountain dew. Nashville Cats been playin' since they's babies. Nashville Cats get work before they're two.

Just a wee bit of drama booking the hotel in Nashville. The internet connection had been a bit dodgy all day so of course it cut out before we got our confirmation number. We pulled over and tried it again but got the message that we were creating a duplicate reservation and if we continued we would incur a duplicate charge. Well, we don't want that.

We went on to the hotel where they could not locate our reservation. But that was because they were only checking the list that had been printed out at 8 AM. When we told them we'd just made the reservation 15 or so minutes before we arrived they had no problem locating it, even though our confirmation email didn't show up for another two hours.

It seems we always eat at the Riverfront Grille when we are in Nashville. We wanted to try a different place and Mark fancied a steak. The Palm had rave reviews so we went there. Of course once Mark saw that there was lamb on the menu he forgot all about the steak! But not me, if there is filet on the menu, that's what I'm having. It truly was One of the best steaks I have ever eaten and the brussels sprouts and creamed spinach were both exceptional! Also, probably the most expensive dinner I have ever eaten.

But the thing we didn't want to change was going to Layla's Bluegrass Inn. We've been to Tootsie's and Second Fiddle and we really prefer the bluegrass that's played in Layla's to the more traditional country music played in the other places. The music hadn't changed but the clientele sure had. To borrow a line from "Bernie" some of them had "more tatoos than teeth" not to mention multiple body-piercings. I know you shouldn't judge people based on how they look, but these people just did not look like your typical bluegrass audience. Maybe they closed Coyote Ugly??

We'll be off to Kentucky tomorrow.