We are home! Had a little extra excitement with our flight being cancelled and no new flights available. I'll explain later. I have had no painting time so I will share our Memphis trip. We went with friends, Mark & Betsy Linn and I will say the girls were the reason the husbands went, however I did have a VERY good time. I want to make a big point of saying EVERYONE we met was kind, all our meals were excellent and our experience in Memphis was over the top wonderful. There are links to everything we did.
Tuesday 3/3: left in the afternoon and drove to Media to spend the night with our friends son. We drove into Philly and had dinner at L'Angolo Ristorante. (no website but you can google it) Small unassuming with fantastic food. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Wednesday 3/4: Early morning flight from Philly to Memphis, rent a car and go for lunch at Kountry Cookin Soul Food. Cafeteria style, and I felt like I was at my childhood church social!! Seriously. Then off to Graceland.
We toured Elvis home and airplanes, and his car museum.
Checked into our Air B&B and changed for dinner at
Majestic Grille. Off to the famous
Beale Street and the dueling pianos at
Silky O'Sullivans till late night!
Thursday 3/5: Breakfast at
The Arcade. Very good breakfast at a Memphis landmark. If you go, plan on extra time, they have a small staff and it takes a while but...worth it. We rushed over to the
Peabody Duck March at 11:00am This is a BIG deal and there were so many people I could not get a good photo. Who knew!
Then to
Sun Studio for a really good tour followed by
Stax Museum Tour. Late lunch at
Huey's Midtown. Now we are tired so back to the house for a little rest and change for our evening.
Dinner and GREAT music at
BB Kings on Beale Street for another late night!
Friday 3/6: Breakfast was donuts from the famous
Gibsons Donuts, there was a line... a LONG line! Off to Graceland to tour all the other museums. A late lunch at
Coletta's Italian. We are eating well!! Back to the house to put our feet up and change. Tonight is the
1st of 5 Elvis Concerts! YES, I said 5! After all, we are here for
Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Weekend with eight Ultimate Elvis tribute artists World Champions. Tonight is Elvis Unchained; a high-energy tribute concert spotlighting Elvis’ powerful live performances and iconic stage presence. Followed by drinks and deserts at the famous Peabody Hotel Lobby Bar! OK, I spent $82 on a small cheese plate, 2 cocktails and 2 desserts! Mine was a chocolate duck filled with mousse, Linda had a beautiful Lemon meringue. So not your average dessert!
Saturday 3/7: Breakfast at
Sunrise Memphis, 11am Ultimate Variety Show, 2nd concert! Today was raining so we decided to go back to the house. Dinner at
Marlowe's Ribs and again, excellent. They had Elvis impersonators entertaining us while we ate! Back to Graceland for #3 concert, Elvis 56. (his early years) AND over to Graceland Guest House for #4, Late Night Love Songs. This may have been our favorite.
Sunday 3/8: We found out early morning that our evening flight was cancelled due to weather. No other flights to Philly for 2 days! Our only option was to drive 3 hours to Nashville, spend the night and take a 5am flight. After there was a plan, we packed up, had breakfast at Sunrise Memphis again and the our final concert #5 was Elvis Sunday Morning Gospel. My 2nd favorite. Then we headed to Nashville getting in around 4pm, checked in and went to dinner at
Salento near the airport. Again, excellent.
Monday 3/9: Caught the hotel shuttle at 3:30AM... arrived home at 11am. Linda did several loads of laundry and I took my first outside bike ride. It was just tooooo nice out. I am guessing its early to bed.
I did not grow up with Elvis, enjoyed a few songs. But this was a very fun trip and if you don't tell anyone, I will admit I am becoming a fan, I would actually go hear the very talented tribute artists again. They nailed the voice and the moves. We had a blast.
