MEMPHIS! Day 1.

I have been meaning to blog about our trip to Memphis that we took two months ago, but life is busy! With the newest addition to the Wood family having arrived last night,  I have been thinking a lot about Isaac's brothers family that we went and visited.
Emmett, our nephew, called Isaac quite a few months ago and invited us to come out for his baptism. We decided that we really wanted to take a visit, so we made it happen.
We decided that if we were going to go, that we needed to go for more than just a couple days. We decided to be there for a full three days, with an additional two days of travel. We left Wednesday, October 8, after classes got out for the day, and came back Sunday afternoon.

Wednesday:
We drove to Idaho Falls after class.
Our flight left from Idaho Falls to Salt Lake at around 6pm.
We got into Memphis just after midnight.
The first night Isaac and I stayed in the hotel with his parents. We stayed at The Hotel Memphis.

Landing in Salt Lake at sunset

Thursday:
 First thing Thursday morning we went to the Peabody hotel in downtown Memphis, to watch the Peabody ducks walk.

We then headed down to Beale Street to walk around.

 

 

We then went for a drive, and were momentarily in Arkansas! Isaac wanted to go across the "m" bridge.

Lunch time, and then on to Graceland. Thanks to Isaac's parents, we were able to take a tour through the house w/ipads. We also went through both planes, and checked out all of the cars

This is the first thing you look at when you walk in. Upstairs is where Elvis's bedroom is. We didn't get to go upstairs. I have been curious about what else is up there ever since we saw this much.

Left half of living room

Right half of living room. Custom couch, really big!

Dining Room. When family is in town, they still eat at this table.

Elvis' parents bedroom

Elvis' parents bathroom

Another set of stairs off the kitchen (I really wanted to go check it out up there!)

Microwave. He purchased one of the first ones, ever. It cost around $600 (if I recall correctly)

Kitchen. It was a lot cooler than my picture shows.

Game/hang out room

Walls and ceiling covered entirely with fabric

TV room

Jungle room/ don't remember it's purpose

Third set of stairs going upstairs. I REALLY WANTED TO GO UPSTAIRS!

Carpet ceilings!

Fabric Walls

 

Entire huge hall was lined with all of his awards. This part was not in his house, but in a museum behind the house.

Sink on his airplane, gold sink.

The bed on his bigger plane. It has a seatbelt!

This is smaller plane.

 

Elvis bought this cadillac for his mom, and had it painted pink for her.

After we left Graceland, we went to Josh and Alicia's and ate dinner. We stayed at their house the next few nights.