Indy's Entry: The Opryland Hotel

I love to visit the Gaylord Opryland Hotel every winter because of their amazing Christmas lights. It’s said they use over 2 million lights for the whole thing. On some trees they string lights down to the very twig. They also create a Christmas tree off of the flag pole with pretty flower lights at the bottom. It really is beautiful to see at night.

Then on the inside there are garden-like touring areas. They have ponds, waterfalls, little rivers, a fountain show, and sooooo many different plants. It really is interesting to walk through and it is enormous. You could easily spend hours there.

Well, Joey, my friend Kristi, and I went to visit the lights before they were taken down after the holidays. It was really fun sight seeing the beautiful scenery. The night was also made better by the lack of people. I think going from 10-1 at night was a great idea… everyone was sleeping!! We had the whole place to ourselves. Of course we took a million pictures and posed for some of them. We also went to a few different places to eat and get drinks, one of which had a live band that played any requests- my favorite was “Anyway You Want It” by Journey.

Other than that and the exciting escapade of getting lost and spending thirty minutes finding the car later that night… (Whoops! Remember where you park, people.) …Joey’s stay consisted of lots of house parties and super late nights along with late mornings.