Around Town

Around CMA Fest they had different race cars. This one was parked in front of Hard Rock and had different artists painted all over it.

This guitar was in a case at Dolly Parton's boutique. I loved that little store so cute. Watty loved it because it had big fans we would go sit by so both of us could cool down if I thought we were getting to hot and we were close to the store.

These guitars were all over Nashville. I love them so cute. Each guitar had a different design.

Spotted this in a shopping center and thought it was cute. Seemed like they were only in this shopping center.

Had to get my race car dog by a REAL race car. This is Dale Earnhardt Jr. car! Thought it was cool to do that. I am getting in to NASCAR a little because of Watty and a friend of mine.

Watty and I with the Ryman behind us.

Watty trying out a treat at the Waggin' Train booth. He loves these treats and was GREAT advertisement for them.

We found this restaurant and had to take a picture of it because our favorite Flatt is Jay and were teasing we found his restaurant.

Pam, a friend from the Flatts fan club, we had been wanting to meet for months and we finally did at CMA Fest. LOVE her and she LOVES Watty!

One tired pup after a crazy week! He pretty much slept the whole way home. That took 2 days. He was tired.

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Now Its Party Time

Thursday-Sunday they had concerts that had 4 acts each night. The first night we did not get out of the stadium till 2:30 AM! The first two nights Melissa Peterman of Singing Bee and Reba was the hostess and the last two nights Evan Farmer of CMT was the host. Each night there was a special guest that sang the national anthem and also a fly over. At midnight every night they shot fireworks over the stadium. We covered Watty's ears for those. That is one thing he does not like....fireworks! Thankfully we met a new friend who had been to the festival the past year and warned us about the fireworks.

Evan Farmer

Mark Wills singing national anthem

Fly over

Miranda Lambert

Reba

Zac Brown Band

Watty during the concerts. He was either watching or sleeping. We put glow bracelets on him so people see him and wont step on him. It works perfect!

Martina McBride

Rascal Flatts

Justin Moore

Kellie Pickler

Blake Shelton

Blake and Miranda singing Blake's song Home...they are engaged!

Blake and Trace Adkins singing their duet Hillbilly Bone

Trace Adkins

Beach balls were thrown in to the audience every night at a certain point. They came from the section behind us so of course we got hit a few times. Watty wasn't to keen on the idea of getting bopped on the head by a beach ball. After night 1 we watched out for the balls to make sure Watty didn't panic.

Brad Paisley was the closer of the festival. He did an awesome job. His last song of the night was his song called Alcohol. Half way through the song Darius Rucker, Justin Moore, and Chuck Wicks come out and finish the song with him. It was fun seeing them all goof off on stage.

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