My husband drove our 1980 Camel Brown Chevrolet Malibu to Memphis Tennessee where we visited the Memphis Zoo, Graceland, and the Memphis Airport.
Description of what our children were wearing that day.
My oldest son was wearing a white pullover shirt, Levi jeans, and a Brave’s cap. My daughter was wearing brown jeans, a white tee shirt, and brown sandals. My middle son was wearing Levi's jeans, a yellow tee shirt, and blue tennis shoes. My youngest son was wearing a Dallas Cowboy jersey, Levi jeans, and white tennis shoes.
We visited the 76-acre Memphis Zoo, which has more than 3,500 animals and over 500 different species.
In the Northwest Passage, we saw polar bears and sea lions.
In the Central Zone, we saw giant pandas, otters, blue magpies, hogs, and deer, cranes.
In the Primate Canyon, we saw the gorillas, orangutans, and siamang gibbons.
In the Cat country, we saw lions, cheetahs, leopards, meerkats, lynx, cougars, and tigers.
In the West Zone, we saw Komodo dragons, toucans, fresh and saltwater fish.
In the farm area, we saw ducks, a donkey, a mini pig, a Jersey cow, goats, a prairie dog, a rabbit, and a Caspian horse.
In the herpetarium, we saw alligators, lizards, and frogs.
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| Memphis Zoo |
We visited Graceland's home in the late Elvis Presley.
Graceland is a large white-columned mansion that opened to the public in 1982.
In 1982, you could walk around the grounds and they did not charge you a fee.
We walked through the front music gates that were open to the public. The gates were designed for Elvis by Abe Saucer and custom-built by John Dillars, Jr.
We walked around the Meditation Garden, which was constructed in 1964-1965 and was built for Elvis as a place for contemplation.
The garden’s centerpiece is a circular twelve-foot fountain pool with five single jets of water and a larger one in the middle all lit by colored floodlights.
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| Graceland |
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| Graceland Pond |
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| The Memphis Airport |
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| The kids standing outside at the Memphis Airport |
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| Memphis Airport Postcard |
Our next stop was the Memphis Airport located at 2491 Winchester Road suite 113 Memphis, Tennessee 38116.
We walked through the airport terminal to watch the different jets take off and land.
We saw jets from Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, United Airlines, Continental Airlines, and American Airlines. We even got to walk inside and tour one of the planes.
On our trip home my head started to ache. I said to my husband that it sure would be nice to get a hotel room for the night but his idea was to drive home and sleep in his own bed.
I climbed into the backseat to lie down to relax my head and the boys moved up front.
The next thing I knew I heard sirens and a State Trooper pulled us over.
He said my husband was speeding, and he gave him a ticket.
How ironic he did not save a penny by speeding to get home. We could have spent the night in a very nice hotel for the cost of the speeding ticket.
It would have been a great trip and to stay the night in a hotel room would have been relaxing.
We had fun at the Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Airport, and Graceland.
Getting a headache and my husband getting a speeding ticket was not the way I would have liked this adventure to end.
Some adventures are fun, some not fun, but what is life without some sort of adventure.
What will my next adventure be?
Graceland!
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