{"id":9308,"date":"2016-12-02T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2016-12-01T17:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:32:59","slug":"raymond-around-the-world-opryland-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/raymond-around-the-world-opryland-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Around the World: Opryland Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few years, Raymond and I have travelled the globe some. Together we’ve visited Chicago<\/a>, Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland<\/a>, Brussels<\/a>, NYC<\/a>, Japan<\/a>, among other places. Raymond is a great travel companion, and we always have a blast together?taking in the sights and sampling local vegetarian food.<\/p>\n

Last weekend Raymond and I had a little free time, so we decided to pop down to Nashville, Tennessee to check out the elaborate Christmas decorations at the Opryland Resort. It was a certainly a sight to behold, as there are more than 2 million twinkling lights across the entire resort!<\/p>\n\"Christmas\n

Raymond and I could’ve stared at these gorgeous trees for hours.<\/h6>\n\"Christmas\n
Every single tree was covered in lights.<\/h6>\n\"Christmas\n
Outside the main entrance to the Opryland Resort where there were carriage rides and a firepit.<\/h6>\n\"Christmas\n
Where’s Raymond?<\/h6>\n\"Christmas\n
Oh, there he is! By the HUGE poinsettia tree!<\/h6>\n

The Opryland Resort is one of the largest hotels in the world, and it features several atriums that house impressive Christmas decorations and thousands of plants. There is even a quarter-mile-long indoor river in the Delta Atrium! Walkways and bridges lead you all around the atriums, and seeing such large-scale holiday displays will leave you feeling jolly. Raymond and I certainly enjoyed wandering along the paths?he drinking some hot cocoa and me sipping a hot toddy.<\/p>\n\"Christmas\n

Raymond was particularly amused by the banjo-strummin’ snowman.<\/h6>\n\"Christmas\n
The ceiling was quite literally dripping with lights. Our photos don’t do it justice!<\/h6>\n\"Christmas\n
Raymond bonding with a nutcracker.<\/h6>\n

Aside from the extensive decorations, there are lots of holiday activities going on all season long at the Opryland Resort<\/a>, such as ice skating, tubing, gingerbread decorating, and more. Maybe sometime Raymond and I will get to go back and experience more of the festivities, but after a couple hours, we had to head back up to the North Pole. [But don’t feel sorry for us; you know we have loads of festive fun up here ;)]<\/p>\n

If you want to experience A Country Christmas at the Opryland Resort yourself, head to Nashville anytime between now and 1 January.<\/p>\n

\nGaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center<\/a>
\n2800 Opryland Drive
\nNashville, TN
\nUnited States\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where else do you think Raymond went this year? Stay tuned to find out! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past few years, Raymond and I have travelled the globe some. Together we’ve visited Chicago, Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, Brussels, NYC, Japan, among other places. Raymond is a great travel companion, and we always have a blast together?taking in the sights and sampling local vegetarian food. Last weekend Raymond and I had a little…Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raymond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9323,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions\/9323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}