Mike Nashville Birthday

Another Birthday... This one included a quick trip up to Pittsburgh to renew my license, some crazy green cupcake I should not have ate for breakfast, and of course to finish it all up a triple layered mint chocolate chip cake made by Jolene.

I was obviously pretty excited about it.

(Our friends Matt and Jess also had their second kid today to join me on my birthday as well!)

God Bless America - JR and Narus Come to Nashville

Fireworks until the smoke blocked them all out

4th of July Pub Crawl - Tequila Cowboy

Group Hike - Mike's Idea

We celebrated the fourth of July the right way by having some good friends from the North come down and visit us in the South. Strangely enough most of their trip aligned perfectly with the longest rainstorm I've ever seen going South to North right over Nashville.

During the 4th we walked downtown and hit a group of bars with live music on Broadway prior to seeing the fireworks.  We also met up with Cameron and Lucie which made our pub crawl a little more exciting than expected that evening.

Not to worry, I didn't let JR and Narus come down here without seeing a bit of the local scene.  We went down to Lynchburg and toured the Jack Daniels distillery, did a hike in Percy Warner Park, went to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and of course tried on some cowboy hats.

Who's the new sheriff in town?

Tour Group - JR and the little girl both hate whiskey

Jolene Nashville Birthday

A fun packed birthday weekend for Jolene.  Her friend Rachel came down from Pittsburgh to visit to make sure we celebrated in style.  We started the day at Pancake Pantry and then once again Jolene's birthday led us to the zoo where we got memberships.

This time I was able to determine the price and rules in English rather than Catalan and the sky remained relatively clear rather than the flash flood we saw last year.  We finished her birthday with Rachel taking us out to Kobe Steaks in West End and a special birthday cake.

Over the long weekend we also got to go on a pub crawl down Broadway hitting a bunch of places for the first time along with some of our favorites.  For some reason it is always acceptable to dance on the bar at Coyote Ugly.  There was also a band at Two Fiddles with two female singers that was awesome.


We had our first grill out by our pool that included a couple that just moved here that Jolene and Rachel knew.















Of course to top it all off was the ride from police officers home after breakfast the one day.  Interesting story and nobody got injured.