| A few weekends ago Javier and I hosted more people than ever before in our little mansion – all told there were 8 of us sleeping under one roof! Danielle, Gretchen, Sarah, David, Brandon and Chris all came to Nashville for a weekend visit that went by WAY too fast. In case you didn’t catch the last time I wrote about a get-together with these folks, they are a few of my closest friends from high school. Well, most of them from high school – Chris and Sarah joined the crazy group when they started dating Dani and David, respectively, in college. Brandon and Gurt are high school sweethearts (and married), Dani and Chris are getting hitched next spring. There – all clear? | Un par de semanas atras, Javier y yo alojamos la mayor cantidad de gente que hemos alojado en la mansion Rodriguez – fuimos 8 personas durmiendo bajo el mismo techo! Danielle, Gretchen, Sarah, David, Brandon, y Chris vinieron a Nashville a visitarnos por el fin de semana y el tiempo paso DEMASIADO rapido. En caso que no leyeron el post sobre la ultima vez que nos juntamos, ellos son mis mejores amigos del liceo. Bueno, la mayoria son del liceo – Chris y Sarah se unieron a este grupo cuando empezaron a pololear con Dani y David, respectivamente, en la universidad. Brando y Gurt pololearon en el liceo y estan casados, Dani y Chris se casaran la proxima primavera. Todo claro? |
| It’s HARD to find a weekend when all of us can get together – the last time we managed to accomplish such a feat was in September when we went to Dale Hollow lake. This time we decided to kick it in Nashville, but there just wasn’t enough time for me and Javi to show them everything this city (and our awesome neighborhood) has to offer. You see…our secret (not so secret?) plan is to convince them all to move here… | Es DIFICIL encontrar un fin de semana donde todos nos podemos juntar – la ultima vez que pudimos hacerlo fue el pasado Septiembre cuando fuimos al lago Dale Hollow. Esta vez decidimos pasar el rato en Nashville, pero no tuvimos suficiente tiempo para mostrarles todo lo que la ciudad (y nuestro barrio) tiene para ofrecer. Ven…nuestro secreto (o no tan secreto) es convencerlos a todos que se muden aqui… |
| On Friday we spent the evening on the porch having a few brews (this was the weekend that we put P90X on hold…) – it was a gorgeous night and we were happy to put the porch to good use for the first time this summer. On Saturday we took it easy – it rained so our plans of hanging out by my parents’ pool were replaced with lounging around the house until we walked over to Riverside Village for the Riverside Blossom Festival. I sang on the acoustic stage at 3:00 with my dad, but we arrived in time to wander around the festival for a bit. I actually didn’t get to see much of it, which was a bummer for me because I had some grand plans of getting a ton of photos to share on here. They got to get a good taste of what riverside village has to offer while I set up with my dad, then we played music for an hour. The weather held out for our set and there were a ton of people at the festival so we had a pretty good turnout between people coming and going by the stage. It was so fun for me to sing for the Louisville crowd – they hadn’t been to one of my shows since high school! | El viernes pasamos la noche en el porch con algunas cervezas (este fue el fin de semana que pusimos pausa a nuestro entrenamiento P90x) – la noche estaba genial y estabamos felices de poder usar el porch de buena manera. El Sabado nos relajamos – llovio asi que nuestros planes de pasar la tarde en la piscina cambiaron por quedarnos en casa y caminar a Riverside Village y visitar el Riverside Blossom Festival. Yo cante en el escenario acustico a las 3 pm con mi papa, pero llegamos con tiempo para darnos una vuelta antes del show. Yo no pude ver mucho, lo que fue una lata porque queria sacar un monton de fotos pero tenia que practicar antes del show. El resto del grupo pudo experimentar la Riverside Village mientras nosotros preparabamos el sonido, y luego tocamos por 1 hora. El tiempo se mantuvo bueno y habia un monton de gente en el festival asi que todo salio bien. Fue entretenido poder cantar para la audiencia de Louisville – no me habian visto cantar desde el liceo! |
| After the festival we spent an hour downtown getting coffee at Mike’s ice cream and then a beer on the patio at Rippys, then it was off to Monell’s in Germantown! I’m telling you…it was one thing after another so we could get as much as we could packed into a few short days. We packed a cooler of beer for Monell’s but none of us had more than one sip of beer because we were so full of the delicious food! At Monell’s it’s all you can eat and BYOB, so we figured the guys would especially love to try out that little slice of Nashville heaven. It was perfect but we overate…by 9:30 we were all ready to go to sleep! Still, we rallied and spent another late night catching up and enjoying time spent in the same zip code. | Despues del festival pasamos una hora en el centro tomando cafe en Mike’s Ice Cream y una cerveza en el patio de Rippys, luego nos fuimos a Monell’s en Germantown! les digo…..fue una cosa despues de la otra para poder hacer todo lo que queriamos en el poco tiempo que teniamos. Llevamos con nosotros un cooler de cervezas a Monell’s pero estabamos tan llenos que nadie tomo nada! la comida estaba demasiado rica! En Monell’s se come todo lo que puedas y puedes traer tu propio alcohol, asi que pensamos que la proxima vez que vengan a Nashville deberian probar ese pedacito de paraiso. Fue perfecto pero comimos mas de lo debido….a las 9:30 estabamos listos para ir a dormir! Pero juntamos energias y nos quedamos hasta tarde conversando, jugando canrtas, y disfrutando el rato con todo el mundo en el mismo codigo postal. |
| Danielle, Chris, Gretchen and Brandon all left the next morning and Javi and I went with David and Sarah back downtown to have lunch at Jack’s barbecue. We were still full from Monell’s, but grabbing a bite of bbq is an essential closing stop for a Nashville trip. After that David and Sarah hit the road and we were left in what felt like a very, very empty house after an awesome and crazy weekend. I LOVE spending time with these guys and I miss them so much – Nashville would be a little bit of heaven on earth if I could somehow convince my friends living up north (and west – looking at you too, Corinne) to move here! Buuuut until we’re all in the same city, we’ll just keep living it up in random 72-hour stints! | Danielle, Chris, Gretchen y Brandon se fueron al otro dia en la manana y Javi, Sarah, David, y yo fuimos al centro a almorzar en Jack’s Barbacue. Todavia estabamos llenos despues de Monell’s, pero un pedacito de barbacoa de Nashville es esencial para cerrar un viaje a Nashville. Luego de eso, Sarah y David tomaron la carretera de vuelta a Kentucky y nosotros nos quedamos con una casa muy muy muy vacia despues de un fin de semana entretenido y loco. Me ENCANTA pasar tiempo con mis amigos, los extrano mucho – Nashville seria un paraiso si puedo convencerlos a todos que se muden aqui (incluyendote a ti Corinne!)! Pero hasta que estemos en la misma ciudad, tendremos que seguir pasandolo bien por periodos de 72 horas cada vez. |
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9 responses to “The weekend we hosted 6”
That picture of chris playing the finger game is priceless
SO good! hahah I love it!
We are hoping to go through Nashville later this year when we make our annual trek to Florida in September – Coming from Canada, we try to take a different route every year to see as many different things/places as possible – the drive is the best part of the vacation! Always meet great people along the way – try take in some smaller roads for part of the trip to get an idea of the local color! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Nashville is great – you should definitely make it a stop on the way! And get barbecue at Jack’s downtown! 🙂
I will keep that in mind and how did you know we just LOVE BBQ! 😉
Why is it that every time we all get together the finger game pops up….your wedding, the lake, nashville…anyway I loved the post and cant wait for another. We will definitely have to use doodle to schedule our next get together!!
How fun!!! I miss you guys! Omigosh the finger game!
LOL!
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