Memphis

I've wanted to go to Memphis for a long time and finally this weekend we went. We left about 3pm on Friday afternoon (its about a 4 hour drive) and stopped at Lamberts Cafe in Sikeston, MO for some dinner and oh was it good!


We made it to Memphis about 7:30 and checked into our hotel, which was right on the main street trolley line and just across the street from a cute little park


After settling in we decided to walk down to Beale street, which was aobut 7 blocks away. The weather was nice, not too hot and only a little humid.

Beale street was packed!

We walked around for a bit and had a couple drinks then decided to take the trolley back to the hotel. We stood at the stop for about 20 minutes(seeing the lights of the trolley at the next stop)before someone told us there had been a trolley accident, so we walked back to the hotel, being quite out of shape we were both tired and sweaty when we got there and went to bed.

Saturday we got up and had planned on having breakfast at the hotel before we left for Graceland, well the room the breakfast was in had too few tables and too little food, we got very little breakfast then headed to Graceland. It was sprinkling rain when we arrived but never did more than that.

We didn't have to wait too long before we were shuttled up to the mansion.



(oh, and someone proposed on the steps)

I enjoyed the tour and I think Matthew did as well.

We went back to the hotel for a bit, then headed to Sun Studio. We took the Madison trolley over there but got there 45 minutes before the tour started so decided to go get some lunch instead.

We went to Gus's (fried chicken) (Madison trolley back up to Main St., Main St. trolley to Linden) which was packed! we decided to get our food to go, but that still took 25 minutes at least, then we went back to the trolley stop, where the first trolley passed us by without stopping. We had to wait 15 minutes for the next one and were hit up by a few panhandlers while we waited. We finally made it back to the hotel and ate and then decided to rest for a bit before doing anything else.

I wanted to see the Peabody ducks march at 5pm so we left the hotel about 3:30 and took the riverfront trolley loop and got off at Union and walked down to the Peabody thinking because we were over half an hour early I'd get a good spot to watch. WRONG! This is as close as I got to the ducks.

The place was packed (see a trend starting to occur here?). We left and went over to Rendezvous for dinner, which believe it or not was NOT packed and we got seated right away and had a nice dinner.

A little bit later we decide we want dessert and a drink so we head out to the Cooky Canuck, guess what....PACKED! So we wander around a bit and finally stop in a place called the Red Rooster. We have a couple drinks then wander back to the hotel to regroup. We did some research online and found this place called the Cheececake Corner, not wanting to walk anymore we got the car and drove there. Wow, amazing cheesecake and brownies.
. As we were leaving the fireworks on the riverfront (for memphis in may) started.




It's only 10pm but we call it a night.

Sunday morning we once again tried to have breakfast at the hotel, no luck. We went back to Sun Studio for the tour about 10am. We had a moonpie and a cup of coffee before the tour started. That is a great tour, highly recommended.



On our way out of town we drove by the Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed.



On the way home we stopped at Perkins in Blythsville, Arkansas, one of Matthew's favorite restaurants and had lunch.

Even though it was incredibly crowded and we didn't get to do everything I wanted to do it was fun, but we've learned our lessons about going places on holiday weekends!