I'm going to Graceland

Graceland
In Memphis Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland

We spent three hours doing the tour of the house, grounds, cars and planes. It's an amazing place - nothing like we expected. The house itself is actually quite understated (apart from the Jungle Room).

The grounds are huge and there are stables, racquetball courts, the pool etc as well as exhibitions showing Elvis' awards, clothes he wore in movies and lots more.

The end of the tour in the racquetball area where Elvis spent his last morning before going upstairs where he died was very emotional, and then it was time to go past Elvis' grave, a memorial plaque for his twin brother Jesse Garon and the graves of his Mum, Dad and Grandma (that was the end of Nell - the tears they did fall!). They still get flowers and tributes to Graceland from all over the world on a daily basis.

After that we went to the Memphis Fire Museum for a look - very underwhelming, but at least we can say we saw it. Then it was time to work out what to do for dinner - we decided to go to Little Rock, Arkansas. It was only two hours up the road and we're on holidays so off we went. The highways here are insane. We've never seen so many trucks in all our lives. You rarely see a car, its just truck after truck the whole way.

That's about it for today. Tomorrow we're leaving for Nashville so it might be a couple of days before we're online again.

Take care y'all xxx