Friday Favorites: Girls Trip to Nashville Days 1 & 2

By far my favorite part of the week was my girl's trip to the Nashville/Franklin area of Tennessee! 

Last Friday I landed in Nashville, Tennessee around 3 pm after an easy morning commute and flight (made so easy because I had no car and my mom drove me to the airport dropping me off curbside). I was meeting up with some blogging friends in real life:  Marilyn from Memphis Bridges,  Jennifer from Overflowing with Thankfulness, and Tanya from The Other Side of the Road.  By the time I had even picked up my bags I had gotten a text from Marilyn and Jennifer that they were parking the car.  We met up in baggage claim and they had made the cutest welcome sigh for both me and Tanya. 

We had a few minutes before meeting up with Tanya and then headed to our rental house in Franklin.  It was adorable and in a lovely little quiet area. 

Tanya brought a cute little gift bag of goodies for each of us; seriously these ladies are just the sweetest and I am so, so glad I decided to fly off to meet these virtual friends that are very much real life friends now. 

That candle smells amazing! 

After hanging around at the house, chatting, and getting to know each other better we decided to go get dinner. We went to The Factory; an old factory that they are turning into a mall of sorts. We walked around for a bit and decided to get some tacos for dinner at Mojo's Tacos.  I am not usually a taco fan but these were incredible!  I was so excited to see sweet tea as a drink option too; I love sweet tea and that is just not something that is found in New England. 

I tried their chicken fajita taco and a brisket taco

After dinner we went over to Jeni's to get some ice cream before heading back to the house and staying up late into the night talking (very late for me with the time change and the fact I am usually in bed by 9!).  But we were having far too much fun.

I tried darkest chocolate and gooey butter cake; both were good but they gooey butter cake was incredible!

Saturday morning we enjoyed a quiet morning around the house eating some fresh sourdough bread that Marilyn made and brought with her along with some fresh fruit and things. 

We decided to head to downtown Franklin and spend a day exploring all the adorable little shops and eateries. We didn't buy anything but we sure had fun browsing. 

Such a cute bookstore with a little bit of everything

We ate a really delicious lunch at Merridee's Breadbasket; I got the Quiche Loraine with salad and macaroni and cheese (since it came with 2 sides but I only ate a few bites of the mac & cheese since the quiche and salad really hit the spot).

We shopped some more... and enjoyed checking out some of the cutest stores! 

We stopped in to check out the Triple Crown Bakery and a few of us could not resist getting a little dessert. I got some of the largest macarons I've ever had and they were yummy!

We went back to the house to rest, regroup, and chatted some more until it was time for dinner. 

We ended our night at the most delicious little Italian food place called Chrysalis Modern Italian where they made their own pasta; funny enough all 4 of us ordered the exact same meal from start to finish!  It was amazing. We shared their bread for 2 appetizer (which was plenty for the 4 of us), a house salad and then each got their Salmone al Limone-- salmon, lemon confit, artichokes, zucchini and more in a delicious wine sauce. 

We went back to the house after dinner and once again stayed up late talking.  I'll share part two of our trip on Monday!

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