All Shook Up

Graceland Day!!! Sorry for the lack of photos, this is being published from.... wait for it.... the business center! At our hotel! We have to pay for internet access so this was much easier, but we can't download our photos to this computer. Anyway, today we visited Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley! First, we toured his mansion, where there were lots of exotic rooms, like the jungle room! An others with bold colors everywhere you turn. We got to see his grave site as well, next to the graves of his family members. We got to see Lisa Marie, his private jet named after his daughter. It was huge, with many couches, chairs and a bed, all with seatbelts. We also got to have a tour of his extensive car collection. The most famous one was his pink car, which was his mother's favorite. You wouldn't believe the number of gift shops and restaurants that they had in the entire tour. We didn't buy very much, but there was much to buy, like a giant Elvis PEZ dispenser. A TCB (Taking Care of Business) walking stick. Twenty thousand dollar replicas of his costumes he wore on stage. I could go on. We wrapped up our tour with the Fashion King exhibit. It was a small room displaying some of his most wild apperall and a funny video explaining some of his fashion habits. Then we drove for seven hours (fun fun fun!) through Mississippi which was difficult. There was lots of rain. And rain. And rain. You could barely see through all this rain. I very stupidly sat down in the grass at a rest stop after the rain. My pants were wet for the rest of the drive. We stopped at a couple of gas stations, where they sold things like boiled peanuts (plain or cajun) and deep fried pork skin which you could get with or without fat attatched. We looked at all of this while eating ice-cream. It was my first time at Baskin Robins, much to my mom's surpise. I got some sherbet and she got some caramel thingy. She noticed that the peanut brittle was called Peanut Brittle when she was a kid, but now it's called Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle. What a surprise! We will add pictures to the post later, probably in two days after we have left our fancy hotel. Tomorrow we have no plans, and we will explore New Orleans!