Nashville Nights!

We had a great weekend in Nashville for Maddie's 4th competition.  We stayed at the Opryland hotel and it is beautiful!  It was our first time and an experience in itself.  We spent a lot of time walking around, went on the boat ride, played games in the arcade, and swam in the indoor pool.  Kev took the kids to get breakfast Saturday morning while I got ready.... $41 later and they had fruit loops to eat.  This place is no joke!
  Nonna and Aunt Marci joined us Saturday.  Brittany and Michael live in Nashville and we met them for dinner at the Aquarium restaurant in Opryland Mills mall.  It was a neat place and everyone enjoyed their dinner, except Kevin:(  I could have spent days at that mall if 1. my kids weren't with me and 2. we had money that I could spend.  It is amazing.  The kids spent a ton of time on their feet that day and were troopers.  Harper spent 90% of the weekend in her stroller and just went with the flow.  She is such a good baby!
  We had to be at the convention center at 7:30 Sunday morning so the kids went to bed early.  Maddie was excited that morning and Marci, Brittany, and Michael came to support her.  The last two meets Maddie had a hard time staying with the music on her floor routine.  She was rushing a few turns and ending her routine early.  She has really been working on her turns and slowing down.  She did great and scored a 9.05 (I think).  I love seeing her take correction well and working hard to fix it.  She placed 5th and this was her toughest meet yet.  There were over 1700 gymnasts at this meet!
  She scored a 9.35 on vault and placed 3rd.  This is proving to be her strongest event.  Her beam routine looked great to me but she didnt place.  She has had some trouble with the bars and over rotated her back hip circle.  Her stride circle looked great though!  One thing I have noticed is she always does best on her first two events.  It doesn't matter which ones they are, they are going to be her two highest scores.  I dont know if she gets tired or bored, but there is usually a big difference.  She ended up 6th all around and we are looking forward to State in a few weeks.
  After the meet we headed back to the mall to eat at Moes and tell everyone goodbye.  The weather was supposed to get bad and we wanted to get home before it did.  We all enjoyed our little Nashville vacay and hope to go back over Christmas sometime.  I have lots of pictures to share!