2018 Dec 4, Trip to Nashville to see Grinch Ice, Gardens Opryland Hotel, & Opry MIlls Nashville, Tennessee

Hubby and I ate lunch at Cracker Barrel Spring Hill.

Hubby ordered a Hamburger, coleslaw, and pinto beans

I ordered a kid's shrimp tarter sauce, and fried apples with cornbread. 

Before entering Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The ice display includes over 2 million pounds of hand-carved ice sculptures. 

Everyone must line up to get a blue coat to wear inside because the rooms are kept at 9 degrees Fahrenheit. I wasn't going to get cold! The coat I am wearing here I wore under the blue coat, along with gloves and boots. It was still cold inside, you could not stay long inside.

The Grinch and his sleigh and I bundled up 

Me and the Grinch 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Opryland Gaylord Hotel stopped for a quick picture in front of  Sleigh and Christmas Tree

A quick picture with Trace Adkins

bird of Paradise 

Red Poinsettia 

Purple Orchard

Lots of beautiful flowers throughout the three gardens at the Hotel.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. 

We took our time at Grinch Ice, Three Gardens at Opryland Gaylord Hotel,  and we walked around at Opry Mills.
We ate dinner inside Opry Mill and we did not run into the work traffic on our way home.
We arrived home around 9:30PM.

2017 Nov 14, Charlie Brown's ICE Opryland Hotel Nashville, Tennessee

Yesterday, we stopped at Olive Garden in Spring Hill for lunch. 

I ordered soup and salad.

After lunch we stopped at Dollar Tree looking for Ipad pens, they were out.

We left Spring Hill traveling to Nashville.

We parked in front of Bass Pro Shops. We walked inside stopping to look at the Christmas Displays. (Santa was not there).

You can be frightened by a Big Brown Bear at Bass Pro Shop 

Some stores we saw inside Opry Mills Mall were the Rainforest Cafe, Aquarium Restaurant, build-a-bear, Lego Store, Game stop, Regal Theater, Zoofari Animal Rides, Kids Play Area, a Loco-Motive, and Santa waving as we walked by. 

You can enjoy a Zoofari Animals Ride

You can ride the Kiddie Train 

You can enjoy Whiskey Samples

 Virtual Reality  

We stopped at the Disney Outlet Store.

I bought myself a pair of Mickey Mouse PJs (25 percent off) and a Mickey Sweat Shirt. 

A recently opened Madame Tussauds is located near the theater. 

You can enjoy music by George Strait

Had my picture taken standing next to the Elvis Presley billboard?

You can tour Madame Tussauds

  The Mall was not crowded like it will be next week and the days following, until Christmas. 

We saw teens riding the Zoofari Animals, (that you can rent)hubby commented I need one of those. 

You can ride the Carousel 

We stopped at the Grand Ole Opry to take pictures of the guitars displayed.

We stopped to purchase tickets for Charlie Brown's Christmas ICE!! 

While waiting to go to see the ICE, I meet a teenage girl from Miami. She said, I am with my parents and we are staying at Opryland Hotel and we are leaving tomorrow. She had never been through the ICE. I told her it was very cold and she would love it very much. We said goodbye and Merry Christmas before we stopped to get our pictures made before entering the ICE. 

Once inside we saw people taking pictures near the sculptures and sliding down the Ice Slides. 

You can enjoy sliding down the ICE!!

YOU can get Psychiatric help for five cents from Lucy!!!LOL

Find the True Meaning of Christmas (with Snoopy)
win money,
money, money!
Spectacular Supercolossal,
Neighborhood Christmas Lights
and Display Contest

Write a Letter to Santa
Dear Santa Claus,
How've you been?
Did you have a nice summer?
How is your wife?
I have been extra good this year
so I have a long list
of presents that I
want.
Please note the
size and color of each
item and send as many as possible.
If it seems too complicated
make it easy for yourself,
just send money.
How about tens and
twenties...

Sing Christmas Carols with Charlie Brown and Friends 

It was after 4PM when we started for home and we ran into the evening work traffic. The sun was setting and before we exited onto the Saturn Parkway it was almost dark. We stopped at Burger King in Columbia to eat dinner. 

It had been a long day and both were ready for a long winter's nap when we arrived home. 

🦌🦌🦌2016 November 15,Tuesday, ICE COLD, Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer

Hubby and I stopped at Logan's Roadhouse Spring Hill TN for lunch.
We ordered Roadhouse 'Shroom which are hand-battered fresh mushrooms with Rockin' Horseradish.  I ordered Chips and Cheese dip, creamy white queso cheese with crispy tortilla chips.
For our main meal, we ordered an All American Cheeseburger, with Swiss Cheese, served with sliced lettuce, tomato, red onion, and pickles on a toasted brioche bun.

Cheeseburger 

Roadhouse 'Shroom 

Chips and Cheese dip

Hubby ordered the Fried Cheese and Bacon Burger, which was fried cheese, thick-cut hardwood smoked bacon sliced tomato, lettuce, red onions, and thousand island dressing on a toasted brioche bun.
We had to get two to-go boxes because we ordered way too much food.

We stopped at Sam's Club in Franklin to purchase two batteries for our RV.

When we reached Nashville our first stop was the Gaylord Opryland Event Center to purchase ICE tickets.
As we walked toward the Event Center we were greeted by a giant ICE sculpture. So we stopped to take pictures.
Next, we purchased ICE tickets! featuring Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is brought to life in magnificent sculptures that are hand-carved from more than 2 million pounds of ice.

ICE

Presents under Christmas Tree

Three Snowmen 

There were several TV hanging on an Ice Wall giving instructions before entering the ICE House.

Wall of TVs

When the show ended everyone was given Blue parkas to wear and before entering the ICE were asked if we wanted our picture taken. We said no.
Upon entering the  9 degrees ICEHOUSE we were greeted by a huge ICE Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer.

WITH a dial that said, "Make it glow"!

Inside ICE we saw several Reindeer, Santa, dancing dolls, Cowboys, clowns, dogs, and bears.
The Lion,  King of the Beast was wearing angel wings, and a crown and he was sitting in front of the ICE slides. There were three or four Slide shoots where people could slide down the ice.

We saw a green Christmas tree covered in colorful balls and a gold rope.
We saw elves, a family of deer, Frosty the Snow Man, the Ice Bar, Santa, and his Reindeer.
One scene was five elves and a sign that read: And, at Santa's Castle ... an elf named Hermney didn't want to make toys as the other elves did. He had wanted to be a dentist since he was a kid.

The elf who wanted to be a dentist. 

We saw Yukon Cornelius and the Abominable Snow Monster. 

Next, we saw Yukon Cornelius and the Abominable Snow Monster and a sign that read:

What they found was a creature! A giant! A friend! An Abominable Snow Monster who was meaner than mean.
The Yukon Cornelius came 'round the bend. These two lonely misfits had found a new friend. What a mighty swing of his miner's ax, Yukon whacked the ice, which started some cracks. and just as the Bumble got to the bay, the ice broke free, and they floated away.

Santa and his Reindeer

Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, The wise men, Shepards and an Angel 

We exited Ice into the Christmas store and we walked to Gaylord Hotel.
I had my picture taken with Santa.
We spent several hours walking through the Three gardens that were decorated for the Christmas Holidays.
We stopped for a Butterfinger Ice Cream and rested.
We exited the hotel and walked back outside Ice Ring where we watched the sunset.

Setting Sun on the White Christmas Tree.
We traveled to Spring Hill stopping at Panda Express for dinner.

Both of us were exhausted from all the walking and it was still over an hour's ride from Spring Hill to home.