The Brown Brick Road

Back in October, I took a weekend trip over to my favorite city to see one of my favorite friends! I was supposed to see all of my college friends for our 20th (!!) college reunion but Vanderbilt bafflingly cancelled all reunion festivities because of Covid. Huh? Everything would have been outside and we’re all vaccinated so that didn’t make sense to me. I didn’t need an official reunion to hang out in Nash-vegas though. All I needed was Lyndsay!

I stayed at The Graduate which was super cool and very Dolly! I loved it obviously!

The first night we had sushi and then found our way to the hidden karaoke bar in the hotel. If only there had been music scouts in that audience…we tore up the stage with some preeetttty spot on renditions of Shania’s “Who’s Bed Have Your Boots Been Under” and then got down to a little “Boot Scootin Boogie” and finished it off with “Islands in the Stream” We had to get some Dolly in!! It was basically the most fun night ever.

The next day we had lunch at Restoration Hardware and walked around the insane store for at least an hour.

We also made an appearance at her nephew’s 5th birthday party where I got to see all of her family.

That night, we hooked up with Allie and Lynlee and headed to downtown Nashville. Drinks at Bourbon Steak were great with incredible views of the ever growing Nashville downtown landscape.

We had dinner plans at Justin Timberlake’s new restaurant but got down there and legit felt like we were in the middle of the biggest Times Square tourist trap ever so bailed and walked over to The Palm and had a great dinner at the bar.

I headed back Sunday morning exhausted and happy from a weekend in one of my fave places with one of my fave people. Robert held down the fort back at home and Samantha even did her own ponytail for her soccer game! Sweet girl.

A great weekend for all!

So thankful for Vanderbilt and the friendships made! Especially this one!