Graceland!!!

Finally we are in Memphis, Tennessee!! Home of Elvis Presley.

We roll into Memphis after a short 2 hour drive and head to our hotel to drop off the doggie and then go to Graceland. Now you know that did not happen, there has to be some sort of drama. So here it is:

As soon as we get to the hotel area, we begin to notice that things are looking a bit shady and that the hotel was not in the best part of town. I think the broken down buildings and the people hanging off the side of the hotel smoking tipped us off. We didn't even go into the office to check in, we just pulled off on the side and started looking for hotels that accepted dogs, we didn't care how much it cost! Long story short, we ended up staying at the Heartbreak Hotel RV park that is directly across the street from Graceland. Lucky us. Charles believes that our lives were spared that night.

On to Graceland... It was really cool, but not what I expected. Elvis (if he were alive today) would be living in the ghetto!! Its a fabulous house, just not a fab location, and you know that's what its really all about...location, location, location!

No really, the house, grounds and tour where something that everyone should go see, even if you are not a die hard Elvis fan. Just learning about his life was amazing. He bought that house and the 13 acres for 100,000! They let you go all throughout the downstairs, but the upstairs is off limits out of respect to him, because he never let anyone go up there. Too bad, I would of loved to see his bedroom.

We toured his house, then his grounds, his racket ball court is now a trophy room and that was a treat to see, it's covered from floor to ceiling with gold records and whatnot. Then we saw his costumes and his cars and got to tour his plane, the "Lisa Marie". Everything was very retro! But I had to remind myself that back in the 70's that stuff was high class!!

Then something happened at near the end that I was not expecting, did anyone else know that Elvis is buried there? I had no idea, until the audio tour guy told me! He was not originally buried there, but after his grave began to get vandalized, his father had him moved. It is a beautiful resting place, where his parents and grandmother are also.

We ended our tour in the gift shop, like every good tour ends! There we bought Caleb his key chain for his ever growing key chain collection, and some Elvis scrapbook stuff! Now I must really scrapbook!