Mark’s friend from California was in town so we decided to show him the metropolis of Nashville. We had trouble finding tourist sites which were open:
Went to the Tennessee State Museum…CLOSED (on Mondays).
Went to the State Capitol…House and Senate Chambers were CLOSED due to renovation.
We did make it over to the Bicentennial Mall. There’s just not much to that. I wish there had been more opportunities to get to the obvious tourist destinations. Call it state funding shortfalls for the closure on Mondays. Yet they are still renovating House and Senate chambers. What are they spending their money on? It is state fair season this week and I would have hoped that they would have put on a pretty face on the state stuff in the capitol. Not just close it turning away potential tourists.
State Fair? It’s fair. Nothing terribly exciting there. We saw the racing pigs and ducks. Only in Tennessee, y’all.
The hypnotist? She tried. That’s all I can say. I guess if you were really concentrating you could be hypnotized. But unless you want it to happen to you, then don’t bother.
Saw some wrestling at the fair. Watching it convinced me that without a doubt this stuff is fixed. It’s a male soap opera. They even had plants in the crowd to egg on the wrestlers. It was just sad to see. It is sad that this phenomenon has progressed to the magnitude that it is. Sad that this “sport” is discussed at length on the internet on discussion boards similar to the schoolyard argument of “my pro wrestler can beat up your pro wrestler.”
Still I wonder how the Wilson County Fair can be so much better than the state fair. More free stuff? Never been. But I have been to the state fair 3 times now.