A family Saturday morning trip to Nashville (Brown County)

Now that October has arrived - marking one month until "baby brother" - we have made a little list of fun things to do together as a family. Naturally, an excursion to the nearby village/town of Nashville for breakfast and a stroll around the shops was a must. Brown County tourism peaks during fall, with thousands of visitors to the state park, village, and antique malls flooding in on weekends. Fortunately it is still early enough in the fall (and we were up early in the morning) that we avoided too much traffic and still got to enjoy the beautiful, winding 30 min. drive from Bloomington to Nashville, admiring the hills and the changing trees. 

Many of the "downtown" Nashville shops are located in houses, like the one below.

our breakfast spot was a restaurant with gobs of Indiana sports memorabilia

hmm, do they smell? Must stop and see.

this shop was a bit scary...please pray that this baby boy will not be born on Halloween!

We spent some time in a few of the shops along Antique Alley, including the leather shop (cool stuff) and a shop selling all stuffed animals. Gemma threw a little tantrum when we had to leave that store...

We'd been walking around the shops for a while and were back on the sidewalk when Gemma suddenly looked behind us, pointed at an older couple, and said, "Man and lady finished eating breakfast." Sure enough, it was the couple who had been sitting near us at breakfast - ! They smiled and waved.

pit stop for Cheerios (Gemma) and water (Jul)

Hmmm, somehow the father figure and photographer didn't make it into any photos on this trip. Must remedy that next time.