The REST of Nashville!

After our amazing half-marathon, we headed back to our temporary home and got showered and then headed right back out to an all you can eat craw fish boil that was so much fun. We were able to just sit and eat all we wanted and recover for a bit. It was a pretty perfect way to recover, outside on a patio, learning to rip a craw fish open (it was my first time!). The one sad thing is that now when I'm away from Lee and doing something really fun, I do tend to have my moments of "Lee would love this, I wish he was here" ... so it would have been nice if he could have joined in the loveliness of the care-free afternoon. But maybe next year! We ended up sharing a table with a couple who were experienced craw fish eaters and they gave me a full tutorial on the proper way to rip off the head, etc. Here's her demonstration:


Here are Jen and Kate before the mass murdering of craw fish


And Jaime with her craw fish


Also, we had happened to make friends with the restaurant manager the night before at a different restaurant (long story, apparently he manages multiple restaurants, they had messed up Jen's dinner the night before, so he came to our table to apologize, and we're pretty chatty, then he ended up being at this restaurant the next day) and he ended up providing us with a large amount of desserts (one the night of the dinner mis-hap, and 3! the day of the craw fish boil). It was fabulous to just eat without a care since we had worked oh-so-hard that morning! And here's a picture of full-and-happy me and Jaime.


And here are all the girls at the table


And a random craw fish race type thing? They had numbers on them and people were betting on which one would make it to the outside of the circle first. #1 won. Duh.


This is all the people staying in the house that weekend. The two guys in the back were Matt's friends in town for a Dave Matthews concert (and a girlfriend that's not in this picture, she's in the middle in the picture of all the girls at the table), so it was a packed house! Kate and Matt (the homeowners) are in the front to the right of me.

Then that night we went to the Billy Currington concert that was included in our race registration. It was lots of fun, but there were lots of tired, limping people there who had just run a marathon or half-marathon that day, so it wasn't the liveliest of crowds. Here is a picture of the three of us before heading in to the concert:

We had a really good time before heading home at a very respectable near midnight. We had a LONG day and I lasted much longer than I expected! We got up the next morning and had a lovely brunch before heading back home to Atlanta. It was a packed trip that's for sure, a fabulous weekend with fabulous friends and I wouldn't change a bit of it!