High Holy Mass of Contradictions

Any other Cheekwood members (or interested non-members) out there going to this?

I started this post on Monday but got busy. Whoops!

Sunday and Monday were sort of the conjoined twin anniversaries of ( our transplant to Nashville three years ago )So Sunday, we had brunch at the Pineapple Room at Cheekwood to celebrate the end of our third year in Nashvegas, which means... the beginning of our senior year here! Maybe sometime soon we'll start figuring out what we're supposed to be doing.

Happily, we also managed to convince tubenerd and oiran to join us, and slipped in a little birthday mention for the Tube Dude.

After brunch, we ( saw god )

Anyway, after that, we walked around the sculpture trail, took lots of pictures of each other (here's pics of Karsten -- I didn't ask anyone else's permission to share photos), got cold, came back to our house, drank hot cocoa, and sat around making silly music on Karsten's keyboard. I had a LOT of fun. :-)

Oh. My. Goodness.

Brunch at the Pineapple Room was wonderful. Just wonderful.

We're never going back. ;-) It would be far too tempting to eat ten times my average meal amount and then feel disabled for hours afterwards. In other words, much like I did today.

I'm thinking brunch at the Pineapple Room, followed by perusal of the contemporary art galleries, followed by a walk through the sculpture trail.

Followed by sobbing that I have to go back to work tomorrow.

Check out this beautiful ichneumon wasp I saw at Cheekwood. Here's more about the ichneumon (only they call it a fly). I'd never even heard of it, but Nature Boy Karsten knew what it was right away.

Cheekwood rocks the house. Can't believe we've lived here this long and yesterday was our first visit. I knew it would be nice, but that's as far as my expectations went: "nice." In fact, it was spectacular. Beautiful. Tranquil. Loved the sculpture trail. Loved the Japanese garden.

So we bought a "Family" membership, which means we now get in free as often as we want, and we can bring two guests with us. And we plan to go back frequently. Yay!

Lunch was at Baja Burrito (as was dinner, thanks to the magic of huge burritos and reheated leftovers). We gave up on trying places we'd never been before: they were all turning out to be so disappointing!

And I mostly finished my CD ripping project. I have a small stack remaining, and they should be finished by the end of today. Feels great to finish a household project finally. I've had so many of these kinds of things in limbo for, well, for years, really. Should have done this vacation at home thing a long time ago. Maybe not a whole week, maybe that amount of time is too much. But a few days and a weekend, that should do it. I'll have to plan for that again in maybe a year or so.