Nashville

I asked Matt to do a short write up on their trip to Nashville. Thank you to everyone who sent encouraging emails such late notice! I know they appreciated it. Here ya go...

"We had a good trip. We were happy with how we played, but won't hear anything for awhile seeing as this is the first stage. As for Nashville, we loved it and didn't want to leave. It's such a cool city. Seeing all the music buildings and driving down Music Row only makes me want it more (even though it seemed there was a huge barbed wire fence around all of those buildings making it impossible for us to ever get in!!) We didn’t do too much that was going to cost us money—WE’RE BROKE MUSICIANS! We still got to experience the town in our own, cheap way. On the drive back to Texas, we spent some time in Jackson, TN where the tornadoes recently went through and basically ripped apart the city. For the most part, the part of Jackson we saw wasn’t too bad. We did, however, drive past the college and you could see the path the tornado took. Some buildings were still standing and untouched, but right through the center of campus it was total destruction. We had plans of stopping to see about helping, but it was raining that day and not much work was going on, so we decided to stop at IHOP and get our free short stack (yay for National Pancake Day!) and drive on. We arrived in Little Rock about 4:30 and made a stop at Mac and Jill’s house (they offered to take us out to eat—did I mention we’re broke??). We had great conversation and amazing food at Dixie. About 6:30 we started our final leg of the trip back to Sherman and made it in about 12:00 a.m. All in all, we had a fun time in Nashville and hope to make it back someday!"