Maybe the busiest day so far!!

Today we explored the city of Memphis, TN. We started out at Graceland where Elvis Presley used to live!

We saw lots of memorabilia...


Toured Elvis's collection of cars and motorcycles...

I loved it all!



Here is Elvis's mansion...

And here are a couple of the rooms we got to see. We also got to tour the grounds and two of his planes!




Next, it was time for some lunch. Mommy and Daddy ate some BBQ at Blues City Cafe on the very famous Beale Street.


From there we went to an old motel called the Lorraine Motel. This was were a very famous man, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.


Then we cruised along the banks of the Mississippi River...

Then we went to a famous hotel called the Peabody Hotel. They have DUCKS in their FOUNTAIN in the lobby! Every day at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. the ducks are marched to (a.m.) and from (p.m.) the fountain!



I loved those silly little ducks!!

Our final stop of the day was Sun Studios. This is the famous recording studio that "discovered" Elvis, Johnny Cash, and tons of others. So many famous musicians have recorded there. U2 recorded their Rattle and Hum album there (Mommy loves u2)! When we arrived, the employee told us that kids under 5 years old were not allowed on the tour! :( But here's what they did b/c they felt bad... they gave Mommy a free ticket for the tour. They offered Daddy any food or snacks he wanted from the cafe while Mommy took the tour. Then, when the tour was over, they let Daddy and I go in the studio to look around at everything!


Mixer that u2 used!

The Studio


This microphone is one of five original microphones from Sun Studio. It was the vocal microphone. It has been used by Elvis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many more music greats!