Memphis- Day 3

- Tony flew 1st thing this morning and Gary drove to New Orleans.

- We woke up and TOMTOM lead us to the closest Blue Plate Cafe for breakfast. I am not a big breakfast person and I loved breakfast at this place. Holy cow! They give you biscuits and gravy to start off while waiting on our breakfast. The gravy was so good that we started putting it on everything. I ordered the ham and cheese omlette with the side of pancakes. The pancakes had a little sweetness in the batter- It was great- Jason Lucas recommended this place and so did a few locals. I would go there again if we ever go back to Memphis. Very good.

- Day 1 with no Grizwald Gnomer- Zoe Gnomer was on her own adventure now.

- Next stop- Graceland! Graceland is a place you have to visit while in Memphis, but not a place I would visit again if we go back to Memphis. I am glad we did it- but by the time we left Graceland- I was Elvispent! No more Elvis- Thank Thank you very much!

- The funniest things about Graceland- you take your picture of a mural of the Graceland gates instead of the real thing and they short bus you over across the street to his go to his house.

- I will say you do get to see into the life of Elvis. I was 3 when he died so did not know much about him. We got to see his plane- the Lisa Marie; his motto/logo- TCB- Taking Care of Business in a flash! We saw his car collection and his rooms. He had a nice car collection and impressive room with all his platinum records and Movies. The man was a living legend.

- After that we went to something I had researched on RoadsideAmerica.com- We went to see the statue of Liberation- it is a 70ft replica of the statue of Liberty however instead of the torsh there is a cross. It is in the middle of big intersection and there stands Ms Liberty. We all thought they should have put the 10 commandments in her arm but it wasn't.

- If it couldn't get any stranger- I also found on the site that hear the Statue was a 20ft Buddha statue on someone s front lawn. So off we were looking for this interesting lawn ornament. When we got there I got out and had to take some pictures of it. I mean how would you like to be the neighbors and walk out and see this 20 ft Buddha outside everyday. It looked like they were building a temple out back. I was told by everyone in the van that as I got out of the car someone looked out the window from the house watching me. I was just on there sidewalk so I did not invade there space. At the same time you put something like that in your lawn - You are asking for spectators.

- After that we were ready to see more so we drove to see the University of Memphis. As we drove to see there campus we saw 3 people in medieval armour fighting each other and we decided we wanted a picture with them.

- I thought there were LARPERS -Live action role player- (Don't ask how I know that). They were not LARPERS but instead they were The Barony of the Grey niche and are a division of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Well since I wanted a photo with them I listened attentively and listen to the head guy tell me that they live the life of the middle ages and have unchoregraphed wars and it was about honor. It was interesting to see these people be so into it. They also told us that there are various Kingdoms across the state. At the end we got the picture with them and we found out that "DUCT TAPE was PERIOD!"

- From there we visited the Mississippi River and saw the Pyramid. We also crossed the bridge to Arkansas and then back to Tennessee.

- We ended up going back to Miss Polly's for dinner and say good bye to Charles. At Miss Pollys a majority of us had the Chicken and Waffles for dinner. John had to have the Pecan butter fried pie one last time. (I think I can recreate a healthy version of it).

- After dinner we headed back to the hotel and went online to see
Youtube videos of the SCA. Go check them out- fun stuff. We also found out that we all had Kingdoms in our hometowns.

- We finished packing and ready for bed- tomorrow we fly home.