Home of The King

After briefly stopping at the Grand Ole Opry, we drove another 3 hours to Memphis, Tennessee - home of Elvis Presley and Gracelands, which was our first stop.

In front of Gracelands

We got to tour through his house, better known as Gracelands. Although you are not allowed in his upstairs bedroom, or upstairs at all out of respect, he had some cool rooms and they were all decorated 'out there'. There was the Jungle Room, where green shag pile carpet lined the walls, floor and ceiling, and the TV room, which was bright yellow and blue.

The lounge room with stained glass with peacocks on them. The piano is one of 3 in the house.

The entertainment room

The Jungle room - all the wild animal sculptures are from Hawaii. Notice the green shag pile carpet?!

You saw all this awards he had won over the years, along with a huge collection of costumes and outfits.

Elvis' favourite car - a pink Cadillac

Ryan with another car

Some of the many costumes

We got to look at his private jets (custom made with 24c gold seat belts, beds, bars, etc) and also got a few photos of Heartbreak Hotel.

That's Heartbreak Hotel in the background

Before checking in to our hotel, we visited Sun Studios, where some very famous artists have recorded their records, including Elvis' very first record, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis.

We also saw the world's 3rd largest pyramid, which is an entertainment venue in Memphis.










The outskirts of Memphis are very very seedy, and we were starting to wonder where all the action was, until we reached Beale Street, the most famous street in Memphis. Here we had our photos taken with an Elvis statue near the Orpheum and walked the Musical Walk of Fame. Beale street was fantastic. Like Nashville, the street was lined with heaps of bars and pubs, however blues and soul music was coming from every street corner and bar. Of course we sampled some bars while walking around the street, taking it all in. There were thousands of people all filling the entire street. We had dinner at a nice restaurant and there was a funky blues band playing. For dinner we had gumbo (Southern soup), spicy Memphis wings (and they were very spicy!), alligator and some mushroom poppers. Yummo!

Us with the Elvis statue

You cant visit the South with out trying their Mint Julep drink. So, on the way home we stopped at a bar (and ran in to Elvis!) and sampled one. It's made from Bourbon, lemonade and fresh mint. It was terrible!

Ryan with his big ass beer!

Kristy and Elvis - in case you were wondering Kristy is licking his nipple

This is Beale street - the tall building is only like the face of the building, the back of it has been demolished and is now a beer garden. This building used to be an old brothel!

These are only some of our photos - we have so many more, but cant put them all up!