Family Tennessee Trip!
We had such an amazing trip together and I'm so glad Jacobs course just so happend to be in Tennessee it worked out perfect!
Day One
This is a picture in the phoenix airport that my parents and Devin saw on their way to the gate, think it has a pretty good name ;)
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| Jacob and I flew out from the Tucson airport and met my parents and devin's plane in houston TX and surprised my mom that we were flying together after that! Once we landed, we ate at a yummy place that had amazing shakes and then checked into the hotel. |
We are not in Arizona anymore, we found this guy on the wall outside as we were checking in... he is sooo green!
Day two
Off to our first stop, Elvis Presley's home, Graceland!
Next stop, Sun Record Studio where many people
including Elvis got their start.
This is where Martin Luther King Jr. died
Mud Island, where you take a tram on the underside of a bridge to the island that has a museum and a large to scale version of the mississippi river that you can walk down
Jacob especially loved spending time at the Gibson Guitar Factory. It was amazing to see how they hand make all those guitars!
We ate dinner at the famous Rendezvous Charcoal Ribs. It was started in 1948 and many famous people have been there!
We then visited my dads work it was really cool to see where he works! we also drove by the only building where his company started.
Day Three
You havent visited the south until you go to
Gus's Fried Chicken
their fried pickles were so yummy too! it was sooo juicy and delicious!
Gus's Fried Chicken
their fried pickles were so yummy too! it was sooo juicy and delicious!
Next stop was a steam boat tour down the Mississippi River !
Day Four
Jakey was suprised to see his buddies
Burkley and Keith there too!
This was an old train station that was made into a cool burger place!
Memphis Temple! ...its soooo tiny! the stake center next door is twice the size!
This is the place that my dad stays while he is here! it is in such a pretty neighborhood.
We then went to the annual hummingbird festival! it was really cool to see them
tag the humming birds.
This house was randomly in the middle of no where and
it was a really pretty house in the middle of the festival
This little duck had a prosthetic leg it was really cool
We had a delicious dinner at the famous Commissary restaurant..
it was delicious authentic memphis BBQ YUM!
While we were eating there this little girl cam in who was Carly's Twin! it was really freaky. we creepily tried to take her picture but didnt really get a good one
The Famous Beale street home of the blues!
we ate an amazing really fancy dinner here too!
We went for a sunday drive and saw some amazing rain cloud and ducks in peoples front yards
We were able to go to church on sunday to the ward my dad goes to and alot of people there work for the big Fedex Headquarters here.
