What to do in Nashville (Part Three)

Go to Rock Island State Park! It's about an hour from us and is one of my favorite places on earth. We camped for a few days in an amazing campsite, explored the waterfalls, jumped off the waterfalls, cooked over the fire and just relaxed. And then I took my favorite picture of Matt ever. With a half broken point and shoot camera. Figures! Matt's face lights up when he talks about Natural Movement founded by Erwan Le Corre
and this photo reminds me of what he dreams of doing one day when his body is finally healed. If you want to see the craziness I'm talking about watch the video at the bottom of this post!

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Kristyn Hogan is a wedding & lifestyle photographer based out of Murfreesboro, TN serving the Nashville area including Murfreesboro, Franklin, Brentwood and Smyrna as well as Iowa and worldwide. www.kristynhogan.com

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August 26 (Evening):
Though Jesus is holy and just, yet blended with His purity there is so much truth and grace, that sinners run to Him amazed at His goodness, fascinated by His love; they salute Him, become His disciples, and take Him to be their Lord and Master....Look, sinner, to the bleeding Saviour, and as thou feelest the attraction of His love, fly to His arms, and thou shalt be saved.
-Charles Spurgeon

("Morning & Evening")

What to do in Nashville: Part Two

Visit Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint in Nolensville, TN. It's been voted the best BBQ in the Nashville area and although I wouldn't consider the Hogans complete BBQ experts, this was the best we've ever had. Again, you'll wait in line (and they said it's not unusual to run out of food) but worth it!

We had Michael (my brother), Aubrey (his girlfriend) and Brad (Matt's best friend) all in town and thought we'd try it out. This place definitely doesn't disappoint!

Matt & I shared the Brisket Tacos (YUM!!!!! Completely unexpected flavor and amazing), also at our table were Pulled Pork Sandwiches and Ribs, all with equal praise. Half the restaurant was ordering brisket tacos and the other half was getting pulled pork so it sounds like those are the things to get.

Michael loved it so much he bought an entire gallon of their BBQ sauce and stuffed it in his luggage to fly home the next day! (True Southern BBQ Joint when it has an Auto Repair shop out back!)

So who's coming to visit next? You'll be full when you leave!

This is what the Hogans do in Nashville: Part One

Living outside of Nashville I feel like maybe I should actually be documenting the things we do in this lovely town. So this is post number one. It's been a crazy last month or so with lots of visitors along with two surgeries for the husband and lots of work. All these things have been great for us but have made me a bit exhausted so here is what I can muster up of my world for today. So far what I can say for Nashville is that unless you love country music it's not necessarily the most exciting vacation destination in the world but it's a great place to live and we really love it here. So in a quest to come up with as many things for our visitors to do, we started finding yummy restaurants, which apparently isn't that hard to do around here.
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First off, the famous Pancake Pantry in West End. Where you'll wait in a line that stretches around the block for 30 minutes-2 hours. And the line will be worth it.

We lived here for months without ever going here until a couple months ago we decided we must try it out and have been here 3 times since and anyone who comes to visit us will be going as well, it's our new tradition :)

They have at least 20 different kinds of pancakes. Sweet Potato pancakes, Caribbean pancakes, Blueberry pancakes, Swedish pancakes, Chocolate crepe pancakes, Sugar and Spice pancakes, Pigs in a Blanket pancakes (no joke), and the list goes on. And we haven't heard anyone disliking any of them yet.

Apparently it's really common to see famous people here on a regular basis but since I don't know country music I wouldn't know if I saw them, so we just enjoy the faces of our beautiful friends and family, stuffing their faces :)

The only pictures I have are of our first trip with friends. And when I took my brother and his girlfriend last week I forgot to take stuffing the face photos. Papa Jim-Bob & Mama Rose (those are your Tennessee names) :), where are all our pictures from your visit?!?!? This blog is not complete without them!