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cpearl: Nashville-bound! (In SFO)
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cpearl: Appetizers: duck pancakes, and deviled eggs w/ pickles and crackers
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cpearl: Dinner on the first night included some live entertainment, including 2 singing waiters
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cpearl: Outside the Grand Ole Opry
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cpearl: Chris and a guitar at the Grand Ole Opry
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cpearl: Do you like my hat?
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cpearl: Carriage rides through downtown
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cpearl: Our tour guide told us every year someone falls off one of these balconies. Hmm ok
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cpearl: The Ryman Auditorium. This was the original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
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cpearl: Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame. They were setting up for a wedding.
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cpearl: Crazy country star car
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cpearl: Johnny Cash gold record
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cpearl: Wall of records
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cpearl: Taylor Swift has an educational center inside the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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cpearl: "Why do you like the Taylor Swift Educational Center?" "Postpones my need for death."
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cpearl: A nice dinner at Sea Salt
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cpearl: My favorite music venue we visited.. dueling pianos! These musicians were amazing.. they could play anything.
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cpearl: Inside the Gaylord Grand Ole Opry Convention Center. They have a river!
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cpearl: Backstage tour of the Grand Ole Opry. This is the set where HeeHaw was filmed, and now the show Nashville.
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cpearl: Minnie Pearl welcoming performers on stage.
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cpearl: If you are invited to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry, you get a mailbox.
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cpearl: After the 2010 floods left 4 feet of standing water inside, they redid the dressing rooms. This one has a photo of June and Johnny Cash.
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cpearl: Another dressing room backstage at the Grand Ole Opry
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cpearl: Chris on the tour
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cpearl: On stage
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cpearl: Singing Stand By Your Man on stage at the Grand Ole Opry
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cpearl: Columbia Records, where Johnny Cash produced many records
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cpearl: The Parthenon! Not what you expect to see in Tennessee. It was built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. It was meant to be temporary.
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cpearl: Chris standing by the huge Athena statue inside
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cpearl: Side view of Athena