The conference was at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Conference Centre. The place was ginormous, on the shuttle from the airport, the driver said they give you a map when you check-in and warned us not to lose the map. Even with the map, finding my room was a challenge. It is the largest non-casino hotel in the world. There are 2800 plus rooms.

There are numerous restaurants and bars within the complex. This restaurant revolves.

There are a couple of atriums and a quarter mile artificial river. When it was christened, water samples from more than 1,700 rivers throughout the world, including every registered river in the United States, were poured into the Delta River.

As you can see the river isn’t that deep.

They were setting up for thei Country Christmas which runs from November 20-January 2. They claim that they start decorating for the Country Christmas in the second week of July. Here they were setting up a giant Christmas tree.

Later in the day when I walked by they had the lights on, but it looks like a couple of strands didn’t work.

Outside they go all out with the Christmas lights. Each of the branches on these trees had lights wrapped on them.

There is Christmas stuff all over the hotel.

The shuttle back to the airport.