A Little Birdy Told Me...

The Loveless Café's famous neon sign

Today (or should I say yesterday?) we went out to go eat at the Loveless Café for breakfast. Due to the sheer volume of people there, we had to wait an hour and a half and we ended up walking around the Loveless property and looking at all the things that was in store. We stopped by a food shop, a gift shop, a clothing shop, and an art shop. At the art shop, we met a woman named Becca who helped us with figuring out a little bit more about our area and particularly the elusive Bluebird Café. She was very nice and I was very glad she went out of her way to help us out and tell us about the café before we were on our way to breakfast.

Evan writes the truth about our biscuits
(Biscuits *more precious than gold*)

The food at the Loveless was pretty good. Probably not worth waiting an hour and a half for, if it were not for the biscuits and jam that came with our breakfast. All four of us in the cohort ate I think three of them? Yeah, three each. They were just really that good that we had to eat a bunch of them! Everyone really liked the blackberry jam the best, although I liked the strawberry better. This is really small talk to someone who wasn't there, but it was major at the table.

Once we finished there we stopped by an actual plantation. Belle Meade Plantation, to be specific. We learned about the 5 generations of the family that lived in the plantation and bred thoroughbred horses over two hundred to a hundred years ago. We learned that there was one horse named Bonnie Scotland who is one of the five horses that any thoroughbred has to be related to in order to be used in a race. We also met two horses ourselves- Whispers and Lieutenant Dan. They weren't coming over at first, but we were able to coax them over with some apples.

Belle Meade Mansion

A beautiful moment at the Bluebird

As soon as we left the plantation, we went straight to the Bluebird and parked ourselves first in line for about 2 hours to wait for the doors to open. It was quite shocking that this famous place was in a shabby strip mall in a bit of a seedier part of town. We were all hot and a bit frustrated about the wait at first, but soon we would learn that the wait was very much worth it. There was a line of four very talented performers whose music was all wonderful. They were extremely talented and knew their craft well. Towards the end was when it grew magical. A man named Phil Barton who is from Hollywood came up and began singing a special song for his girlfriend. It seemed pretty normal at first, until he dropped to his knee and proposed to her. That was probably the coolest and best part of the night tonight, in all honesty, and I'm glad I got to see it.