Home, Elvis, Air Conditioner

Well, we finally arrived home last night, somewhere close to midnight. It was a long day. Let me catch you up with our final night and day on the trip.
As you know, we were about to go out to eat in Memphis. We did, at Hard Rock Cafe on Beal Street. Will picked the place out. It was bike week on Beal Street, and Harley's were parked on both sides of Beal street for everyone to see. Music was coming from every pub, bar and restaurant on the strip. It was a lot of fun. We went back to the Hotel, and everyone had desert.
Yesterday morning, we got up, and Julie, Hannah and I went to Graceland. The others stayed at the hotel and kept the dog....slept....you know.
Graceland isn't as big as I imagined. I kept looking for Jail houses, Hound Dogs and so forth, but never saw any. But it was fun. I can tick that one off my "to do" list. I guess I am just not the Elvis fan that some are. However, next week is "Elvis Week", and the crowds will be huge. Julie asked the penetrating question of the day when she asked one of the main hosts of Graceland, "What is Elvis week?"
You would have thought that she had asked one of the Cardinals if the Pope was really Catholic. She looked at Julie....and said, "why, it is when we celebrate the life of Elvis. Next week is the 30th anniversary of his death!" (Like everyone was supposed to know this, and how dare she ask that question....) The jungle room was my favorite....don't know why, it just was.
We left Memphis around noon, and drove all the way back. As it had done for a few days, it rained on us off and on.
Everyone was tired of each other by the time we arrived home...maybe 1 too many days cooped up in a car together with 6 people.
And what should we find when we got home???? Well, a house on our street burned down while we were gone (Terrible!), and the upstairs air conditioning unit at our house wasn't working. Oh, and all of our bedrooms are on the top floor! So, today the heat was about 87 degrees upstairs, and the guy who works on our unit can't come and look at it until tomorrow morning. "Hunka, hunka burning".....was what it was, but not "hunka, hunka burning love!"
I went to work for a while today, Julie bought groceries since we had nothing to eat in the house, and the girls began to get ready for school. Marissa moves into her dorm on Friday, we move Hannah into her apartment on Sunday evening/Monday morning, and the world is back to normal. The road is great...the places we saw were grand...and I am more than glad we did it. But still......there is no place like home.
Thanks for sharing the "cyber road" with us.
---WJLsr