Memphis Minus the Rock n' Roll

This Saturday we drove to Graceland, that is, Memphis. On our way, however, we stopped at a Tennessee pearl farm. Who new that they produce pearls in Tennessee? Anyways, it was actually really interesting! To 'grow' pearls, they insert a peice of shell into a mollusk (not just a clam!) and wait up to five years for it to build up a coating around it. This somethimes works, sometimes it dosen't. Jess and I each got a string of pearls and Mum got a lovely necklace and earring set. Zach, quite uninterested in jewelry, bought beef jerky.

When we arrived in Memphis we looked into going to Graceland. (Graceland is the home that Elvis built for his parents and where he is buried.) We quickly realized that none of us had liked Elvis much anyways when we saw ticket prices! We decided instead to go on a tour of the Gibson guitar factory. We got there only to  find they were sold out! Of course, that didn't phase dad TOO much by the time he realized that there were guitars lining the walls. He, also of course, found one that he really liked. (I liked it too but I know nothing of guitars so my opinion does not count.) The price tag however, was not pretty so it was swiftly decided that he did NOT need a guitar #5. In the evening, we went to go see "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D". Some 3D movies are really lame but this one was actually executed nicely. It was pretty well done. When we got back to the car, we noticed that someone had inscribed a lovely message on the window of our utterly filthy vehicle. (It is insanely, unbelievably, horrifically, dirty!) We decided that now would be a good time to get ourselves over to a carwash. We have the bike rack and bike stuck to the end of the car and it seems as though those don't agree very well with car washes. The long water/soap arm thing is going around the car and then it stops. We all did the "Uh oh". Dad went out to look at it and it seemed as though it had jammed itself against the rack! We tried to fix it to no avail. We had to drive back to the motorhome with a half wet car! (It did NOT clean that side, by the way.) Mum said they'd put the cops after us for breaking their carwash but, we don't have license plates on the car yet anyways! However, we did pay with a credit card... :P I'd tell you what we're doing tomorrow but... I don't know yet.