Music Valley Wax Museum of the Stars

so on my actual birthday, travis and i went to the was museum in nashville. it turns out it was a good thing, because of the flood it's closed indefinitely!

it was awful/awesome/tacky/perfect!

this place is only 15 minutes from our new house! i can't believe i'd never been here.there weren't many names out here i recognized. but of course we love porter wagoner. i would show a picture of me with him, but i look really terrible in it.

you walk through the most terrible gift shop in america and into the museum!there were probably 8-10 different dvds playing so so loud! it was a little overwhelming and you couldn't understand them. very nice.



i love awkward wax figure hands!!!there new taylor swift exhibit! can you see the fan? it was blowing about 8 strands of her hair. and isn't that figure an incredible likeness?? hahahah.
very important figures in country music
oh porter! what did they do to you!! his hair!!!
stevie wonder? maybe?
i played minnie pearl in a play once about great tennesseans

poor ugly elvis. check out those chunks of wax gouged out of his face! travis thinks maybe a craze elvis fan tried to grab him.beautiful paintings all over the place. i was wondering how this place stayed open, but as we were leaving a HUGE bus of people was filing in. so i guess they were still pretty popular.we went to on our of favorite antique malls afterwad and i got this skunk cup! i'm going to put pens in it in my woodland themed craft room!
we went to dinner with my parents at pancho's. it was delicious as always.

we walked around downtown franklin for a while. saw my birthday stone and wished the cupcake place was open. i think their window display is really cute.

then we went to crystal's house and played outburst. best category card ever?

Saint Louis Trip: Day Two

it's freezing in our house now! we are trying to be cheap and not buy propane so we don't have any heat. and the low today is 40. dang i want a snuggie. for real.

here are some more pictures from our st. louis trip! from when we went up in the arch and to a creepy wax museum.



we got up early wednesday morning and went and parked downtown near the arch. it's right on the riverfront.

i don't know why this was so exciting. but it was! the arch is so giant and cool!

there is a little pod you can get in to see what you will be riding to the top of the arch in. but it was much cuter in person....



it was so fun/scary going up! it takes longer than you expect, and you can see the inside of the arch. lots of bolts and metal. lots of squealing from the girls.


up at the top you are in a little curved room with tiny windows to look out of. so awesome. even if it was the same view you get from a plane pretty much.







that guy was in charge of getting people back into the pods. he was overly mean about it though. then, a random man was in our pod with us on the way down! hahaha, i think he was supposed to go in the one in front of us. it was awkwardly awesome. travis is laughing right now thinking about it.

there were cute cobblestone streets as we walked to the wax museum.

the lobby was already fun! it was only five bucks for the wax museum. can you believe it was the first one i've ever been to?


there were lots of creepy statues there. we never figured out who that creep on the right was supposed to be.


my favorite part was a display about henry VIII and his wives. mostly because there was a really loud song playing, the refrain of which was " divorced beheaded and died! divorced beheaded survived!!!!" and it was skipping and adding "and died!!!" in weird places. we went in that room twice.


then we went down stairs into the chamber of horrors. which was honestly terrifying! all kinds of creepy dioramas of people getting murdered. and hitler. and dracula.

then we left and walked back to the car. this little downtown part of st. louis was so cute.

then it was off to the city museum. which gets its own post because it was so amazing.