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Christmas/New Year's

We began winding down the year of 2016 with a month or so of activities focused mostly on the holidays.

Wednesday, 12/21 -  We headed over to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville tonight to check out their beautiful holiday lights displays with our friend, Wayne.  We had dinner before had at the always great Jack Brown's Beer and Burger Joint.  The temps were nice and we enjoyed our more than a mile walk around the grounds. Saturday, 12/31 -  We got an awesome room at the beautiful downtown Hilton in Nashville thanks to Ashlee's points.  We walked a short ways to see one of our favorite crooners, Dan Layus, and serveral others play at Opry at the Ryman,   It was a fun show and the place was packed. After the show it was on to the Fireball Ignite the Night New Year's Eve soiree benefiting the W.O. Smith Music School in downtown Nashville.    This was a cool event and the booze was flowing (a little too much for me unfortunately!).  Thanks to Wayne for hooking me up with the cool bow-tie that got a ton of compliments.  Happy New Year!! 2016 was a great year for us.  We did a bit less traveling with the new pool installation, but still had a ton of activities that filled an overflowing new collage.  We are hoping 2017 treats us well as we embark on it with a leader of our country that we do not like or trust.  We will make the best of it and try and focus on the things we can control which is living our lives to the absolute fullest that we can!
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