The Opryland Hotel

The Gaylord Opryland Hotel is a great place to spend a cold wintery day, especially around Christmastime.  My mother-in-law and I were transported from freezing Nashville temperatures to a tropical sauna within minutes.  It's hard to believe that just 1.5 years ago much of the hotel was inundated by the "1000-year flood".

The indoor gardens were immaculate and beautiful, filled with thousands of poinsettias.  We learned from one of the indoor gardeners that there are 16 indoor gardeners and 16 outdoor gardeners.  By the way, the indoor gardeners were "hanging loose" in Hawaiian shirts while the outdoor gardeners were bundled up like Iditarod mushers.  Anyway, here are a few pictures of "the tropics" in Nashville.  I just realized that I didn't get any pictures of the poinsettias or the Christmas decorations.  Doh!  I just might have to make another trip out there before 2012.