Memphis

Finally was able to sleep in a bit this morning, instead of getting up at 7 like I have everywhere else, which made me much less grumpy this morning than usual. After breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and went to Graceland, the mansion where Elvis Presley lived, died and is buried along with other family members. There, we were able to walk around the mansion, but not the area upstairs, we could see his car collection and his two custom planes, the Lisa Marie (named after his daughter) and the "Hound Dog II"

After leaving Graceland we went to the the Civil Rights museum. The museum was previously the Lerane Hotel, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, and the building he was shot from has also been converted, however the place where King was shot, and the room he was shot from have been preserved as they were. It was a rather odd feeling, to have now seen where he stood during one of his most famous speeches, and now to have seen where he died.

After the museum, we came to our new hotel, the Peabody Hotel. The hotel is rather famous due to the fact that it has a group of five ducks who live on the roof of the hotel, and march into an elevator at 11 AM every morning to go down to the lobby and march into the fountain there, where they stay until 5 PM, when they march right back into the elevator and up to the roof, it's a very interesting sight. Tonight we ate dinner at B.B. King's Blues Club and were treated to some very good live blues music as we ate, it was a good start to the blues part of the trip, which will be continuing very heavily until we get to New Orleans.