Mothership Confessional

Well we sure picked a humdinger of a night to have a date night in Nashville. I stayed a little bit late at work, traffic was horrible on the way home, and it was pouring rain. I was trying to hurry so we could get to Nashville at a decent time. But then I heard on the radio that Taylor Swift was having day 1 of her concert in Nashville. That pretty much convinced me that we SHOULD NOT  venture downtown tonite.  Too wet, too late, and too busy.  So once again, our date night stayed in Clarksville.  Chris had done some research by the time I got home and picked out a restaurant: The Cumberland Grille.  Sounds fancy! I imagined a sophisticated, dimly lit bar and grille with prices on the menu listed as "14" instead of "14.00".  Here is a photo of the restaurant I pulled from Google Earth: Hmm, not quite what I was expecting. Next door is a flower nursery. It literally looks like two buildings (and their parking lots) we...

After our 4th of July stay in Nashville, we decided we should go downtown for dinner date nights once a month to try a new restaurant. We went ahead and picked an evening, last Friday to be exact, and Chris said it was my choice! But it was a very long week for the both of us, and by the time Friday rolled around, this was our verbal exchange, more or less: "So, are we still going to drive all the way downtown for dinner?" "I dunno. Do you want to?" "I'm a little tired to drive that far." We still wanted a date night, but we were both so tired from our week and had hardly spent any time together, we didn't really want to waste it driving 2 hours round trip. So we decided to stay local and dine in Clarksville, so technically this doesn't count as a "Downtown Dinner Date". But we still stuck to the rules and picked a restaurant neither of us had been to before: Cheddar's! There is one back home ...