Opry Mills Mall

What an interesting day I had today. I woke up just after 9 a.m. and texted Jonathan to find out when we were going to head to Nashville. He had to get some stuff done before leaving so he told me to just stay in bed as long as I wanted to and he would let me know when I should get up and ready to go. Then he said that I should unlock the door though. That got me a little skeptical and I remembered Jonathan texting a lot during the night before. A little later he called me and said he was outside the door and that I really should let him in. I wasn't completely convinced I should, but finally I dragged myself out of bed, threw on a sweatshirt, opened the door and trudged back to my room. Mysterious noises drifted into the room under the door. Awhile later there was a knock at the door and when I said he could come in, he opened the door, turned on the light and then there was some laughing and whispering going on right outside the door. The door was shut and more mysterious noises sounded outside the room. I was pretty sure by then what was going on. Then the knock came again, I gave a second all-clear and the door re-opened. Jonathan and Josh brought in a slab of board wrapped in our table cloth laden with breakfast food, including eggs! So they made Bryn and I breakfast in bed and it was delicious. I ate a whole bunch of eggs, a veggie sausage piece and a piece of French toast. Then I was stuffed and convinced Jonathan and Josh to eat breakfast, too. We got a few pictures and then they cleaned up (which was super nice of them) and then left so we could all get ready for our Nashville day trip.

We left the campus after finally locating one of our travel-members around 1 p.m. and drove to the Opry Mills Mall. Then we walked around looking at all the awesome stuff, mainly the Rainforest Cafe, where the gorillas and other jungle animals woke up every now and then to put on a show of their strength and skill. Then we ate lunch and Cinnebon's for dessert before finding the Glow-in-the-Dark mini-golf place and playing a round of 18-hole mini-golf. I think I was second last or something unimpressive like that. Either Jonathan or Bryn won if my memory serves me correct. Then we looked at a guitar store for a bit before Bryn and I branched off to run to another store. We rejoined the group on the other side of the mall and looked around the Aquarium restaurant. I watched the sharks for while, which was awesome. The only bad thing about the aquarium adventure was that there was this poor red fish swimming tail-up-head-down near the top of the tank. His eyes were all bugged out and he would have looked comical if he hadn't looked so near death. After that we browsed through Barnes & Noble (and I didn't buy one thing...yay for self-control!) and then some people bought Marble Slab ice cream before we loaded into Jonathan's van for the drive back to school. Jonathan drove super fast the whole way back so that his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend could get back to the dorm in time for curfew. We made it with a few minutes to spare and without getting pulled over by a cop, so that was good. Then Jonathan dropped Bryn and I off at our place and went home to sleep. Now that I'm done writing this post I think I'll maybe read a little bit before going to bed myself.