Nashville!!

I have no idea how I missed this but today is the first day I have heard about the awful flooding in Nashville. As soon as I caught wind of the floods I called my friends who live there and made sure they were ok, which thankfully they are, then I started to go threw the pictures. I am stunned that such a beautiful place that we JUST visited last August is now under water and seriously damaged. The Opryland Hotel we stayed in was evacuated and the 1st floor under water, the beautiful gardens all under dark greenish gross water. That hotel was sooo nice, so splendid! I am so sad! Then to see the Opry Mills shopping center and the The Grand Ole' Opry itself under water! We just posed for pictures and walked and drove around that whole area, now under water!

Here are the before and after (some pics are ones I took on our trip and the others are from Yahoo)...

This is an aerial view of the Opryland Hotel with the water finally receding.

This is the first floor, they are reporting is under water now. It was so beautiful!

This is a view of inside of the Opryland hotel gardens, they are all over the hotel and so beautiful and fun shops all over too.

The above picture and below picture were taken last August, we had so much fun here! Very odd to look at these pictures with the water, hard to believe!

I don't have a picture of this area from before but Carson and I got lost and came out onto these very steps to figure out where we were. It is so crazy to see this now!

This is a view of the Opry Mills shopping area and the General Jackson Showboat. We just saw this river boat and the loading area, would have loved to have gone on it but there wasn't enough time!

Walking around the Opry Mills Shopping area outside!

The Grand Ole' Opry! The Opry building is the taller middle building in the picture.

Here is my little family in front of the Opry building and sign. It was really cool to walk around since I grew up listening to some of the country greats. I hope they haven't lost all the archives and history from this building!