{"id":7723,"date":"2012-05-29T21:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T02:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2012-06-20T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T03:43:32","slug":"breakfast-with-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=7723","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast with a View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273467674\/\"  title=\"2012-05-26 09.45.39.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7222\/7273467674_d0b5e140e8_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2012-05-26 09.45.39.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main waterfall in the Cascades at Gaylord Opryland.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273453952\/\"  title=\"FB_IMG_13380433139087434.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7215\/7273453952_90501c595d_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"FB_IMG_13380433139087434.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian and I woke up starving the next morning.  Room service at Gaylord is a little pricey. I mean, who the heck pays $7 for hot chocolate.  That&#8217;s before the delivery fee and gratuity.  I figured we could walk down to Cascades Cafe to eat.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t even shower.  We pretty much just went down there in our PJs.  Except, I couldn&#8217;t quite traipse around in public in my PJ shorts so I had to put my denim skirt on.  For not having showered that morning, Brian looked fabulous in his sweatpants and nerdy Green Lantern shirt.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273466252\/\"  title=\"2012-05-26 09.47.01.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8141\/7273466252_abb9324a24_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2012-05-26 09.47.01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took some photos of the beautiful Cascades surroundings while we waited for a table, but we didn&#8217;t have to wait long.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273456710\/\"  title=\"2012-05-26 09.44.21.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7231\/7273456710_cd6b03e27a.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2012-05-26 09.44.21.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273506978\/\"  title=\"2012-05-26 09.54.30.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8142\/7273506978_7f4742149d_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" height=\"640\" alt=\"2012-05-26 09.54.30.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian got the Cascades All-American.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273559890\/\"  title=\"2012-05-26 10.05.12.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7083\/7273559890_25b85a93cf.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2012-05-26 10.05.12.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got the Crab Cakes Benedict. It was super yummy. It took a lot for me not to wipe my plate clean.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273563232\/\"  title=\"2012-05-26 10.06.06.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7218\/7273563232_24809e9ce5.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" alt=\"2012-05-26 10.06.06.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7273565920\/\"  title=\"2012-05-26 10.06.49.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7085\/7273565920_542b7ae619.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2012-05-26 10.06.49.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cheesy hash brown casserole was pretty good too.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7271398332\/\"  title=\"SAM_1915 by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8007\/7271398332_c45622680a.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"SAM_1915\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple more pictures.  One last one of the big waterfall.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/7271397110\/\"  title=\"SAM_1923 by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7213\/7271397110_cb2430050c_z.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"SAM_1923\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You all need to check out Gaylord Opryland at some point. It&#8217;s not a cheap place to visit, but it&#8217;s beautiful and definitely worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/47\/1473366\/restaurant\/Haysboro\/Cascades-All-American-Cafe-Nashville\" ><img alt=\"Cascades All-American Cafe on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1473366\/biglink.gif\" style=\"border:none;padding:0px;width:200px;height:146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main waterfall in the Cascades at Gaylord Opryland. Brian and I woke up starving the next morning. Room service at Gaylord is a little pricey. I mean, who the heck pays $7 for hot chocolate. That&#8217;s before the delivery fee and gratuity. I figured we could walk down to Cascades Cafe to eat. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,21],"tags":[187,1786,1784,1776,1624,1785],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}