Nashville by Amelia

Our trip to Nashville was full of surprises. The city was nothing like I expected it to be like. I was thinking of a touristy place with gift shops and old buildings and some bands playing under a pavillion. Nashville was nothing like that. First of all it was LOUD!!!!!! All the chatter of the ever-present crowds combatted the noisy racket of about 50 bands playing at once from all the bars. We walked on a huge pedestrian bridge because we thought it would be the most pandemic-free place that was still worthwhile. Everyone was unmasked, and the rare occasion of a person wearing one, was spoiled by the fact that they wore it wrong. They didn't cover their nose, instead, it's highest extent was the upper lip. Oceans of people swarmed the streets, and it was barely safe in the car, because there were all these weird bar buses, where teenagers scream very loudly and drink and blast music, breaking everyone's eardrums. Some of these had pedals, so the party would move the vehicle themselves. They were a lot slower than everyone else, so I feel sorry for the cars behind them that were trying to get somewhere. The buildings were very unique there. The country music hall of fame had many curves on the outside ( we couldn't see the inside because of covid) and there were many towers off in the distance. One particularly strange building was called the 'Batman building' because of two pointy ear-ish things sticking out the top. The capitol building of Tennessee was very pretty, and it had an extremely big hill to climb, if you wanted a good look at it. There were many runners taking advantage of the 'mountain' and they ran all over it. In a park, there were all these tall skinny towers in a circle, and they had a different size of bell inside and they played famous Tennessee songs like Love Me Tender and Chatanooga Choo Choo. In the middle of the circle there was some sort of meditation yoga class going on. There were a lot of pretty plants and flowers, but a big field that had sprinkles in it wasn't very beautiful. The sprinklers must have not been doing their job right, because it was all DEAD. It was just a lot of ugly, brown, itchy, dead stuff sticking out of the earth. We moved on quickly because it was not a very nice view. Soon after, we saw a replica of the Parthenon, and it was very cool-looking and HUGE!!!!! It was so amazing. Maybe Nashville was a little too loud for us, but it was an amazing experience, and we had fun.

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