Boo's Trip to the Bicentennial Mall

I took approximately three billion pictures during Boo's field trip to the Bicentennial Mall and Farmer's Market yesterday. For those of you not native to Nashville, there's a huge mall in front of the state capitol. It was constructed in 1996 to celebrate Tennessee's bicentennial, and includes a 1,400-foot wall of history, a ninety-five bell carillion (one for each of the counties in the state), an amphitheater, a nine-ton floating marble globe of the world as it was during World War II, and a plaza with thirty-one fountains (to represent each of the rivers that flow through Tennessee). The fountains are pretty much designed to be played in, and the kids had a fantastic time:





There's something about turning the fountains off and on with one's bottom that's a universal toddler pleasure.



Another feature of the mall is a map plaza in front of the fountains. It has an enormous to-scale map of Tennessee. Boo is crushing our house under her mighty croc.