Haunted Hotel

This entire week, we were in Nashville for Cupcake's job. Lawman tagged along as chauffeur and armed security so we had to have Pop look after our girls.
We drove down Sunday evening and checked in to the Hilton. We got the keys and went up to our room, but the keys wouldn't open the door so Cupcake decided to leave Lawman with the bags while she went back for new keys. Leaving Lawman alone will lead to a security scan, lay of the land, egress routes and defend-able high ground. He was looking out of the hallway window when he noticed what appeared to be a tombstone in the front of the hotel. Being Nashville is a civil war town, we figured it was some type of historical marker.
The next day, Lawman went to checkout the marker and found it was in fact a tombstone. Turns out there is an entire cemetery in the front of the building. A Google search found that the family who agreed to sell the property to the hotel chain would only agree to the sale if the hotel left the family cemetery alone, so they built around it.

Sunken/Unmarked

While we were there, we brought a few comforts of home with us. The last time we were here, we tried the cut rate coffee that came in the room. It wasn't fit for human consumption. This time we brought real coffee with us.

And part of Lawman's duties was to keep Cupcake looking sharp. She was the only person in the office with military creases in her dress shirts.

Two days in to our stay, we got a weather alert on our phones. Turns out a tornado was blowing through town. The storm passed one ridge over and hit the area of Cool Springs. We saw the cloud go by from our room.

The downside to being gone for a week was food. Eating out every meal was miserable. We tried a BBQ joint, but it was nothing like Lawman's BBQ. We tried a hamburger joint that was nasty, plus the girl taking orders/making the food sampled the food off of everyone's tray. Every. Single. Tray.
The first thing we did when we got home was make a homemade pizza. We even skipped our regular Dude's burger.

Sunday we learned that the flu bug had invaded Brother Kevin's home and Pop was going to stay home instead of making his Sunday night trek to visit. We skipped our usual wings and made a Philly pinwheel and had Pop over for dinner.

Our one project for the week that we did squeeze in was a new plant. Cupcake bought Lawman an olive tree for Valentines Day. It was delivered just before we left and we got it into a pot. We hope to have fresh olives some day.

And we also got a fresh shipment of real coffee when we got back.

Five pounds of whole bean. That should last us a couple of months.
When we got back we changed the camera cards and found our predator pals were still hanging around the property. We didn't lose any girls that we can tell, but several traps got sprung while we were gone. Saturday was move/bait/set new sets.

K&K