Spontaneous Trip to Nashville

Spontaneity.  My whole life I have thrived on being spontaneous, but this was the craziest thing I have ever done. It was late in October when I was up one night watching TV, browsing the Internet, and drinking a glass of wine. I was watching CMT for some reason when a commercial for the CMA awards came on. This commercial sparked my interest.

Hmmmm… I thought to myself, I wonder how much those tickets cost.

Usually people buy stupid, pointless crap when they’re up late having a beverage. Things like crazy workout videos, magical cleaners, and tools to help people, who have never been able to cook, finally cook.

So I started my quest. I got onto Google and searched CMA tickets. $140 a piece. Next thing I knew my credit card was out and I was typing in my name, billing address, and credit card information. I bought two tickets. 

It was about 12:30 in the morning when I received my CMA ticket confirmation e-mail.

I obviously then had to buy plane tickets. So, onto the Southwest website I went. Flights were surprisingly inexpensive, so I purchased those as well.

I calmly walked into my parent’s room and tapped my Mom’s shoulder until she awakened.

“What? What?! Are you okay? Do you need something?” she said.

“Wellllll…. I just bought two tickets to the CMA awards, so we are going and we leave in two weeks.” I said.

She quickly sat up and said “you bought what? Like the CMA awards that are hosted in Nashville? Did you think about I don’t know… how we are going to get there? Or where we are going to stay?”

“Well duh. I bought two tickets to the show and two plane tickets.”

Somehow the hotel skipped my mind, but we can figure that out in the morning. I could tell my mom was thinking something along the lines of Jesus Sarah, you couldn’t have just bought clothes…you had to go and buy CMA tickets… but, whatever. It will be worth it.

I called my grandmother who owned timeshares to see if she happened to have one in the Nashville area. I am very much like my grandmother. We both love to travel and we both are always willing to do anything and go anywhere. Once on the phone, she told me that she was very excited for me to get to do something like this and she will check the availability of the resort.

She called me back no less than an hour later saying that we would be staying in her timeshare resort, and that she was treating me and my mother to the stay.

This trip was coming together too perfectly.

My mom and I arrived in Nashville on November 8^th.

The CMAs were on November 10^th.

When we arrived to the Bridgestone arena where the award show was held, we walked up to our seats and anxiously waited for the show to start.

It all felt too real and worth every penny when Brad and Carrie came out on stage together to start the show.

I’m a huge country music fan. That day I was able to see Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Zac Brown Band, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift and so many more.

To this day, that was the most memorable and exciting trip of my life and I would do it all over again.