Memphis TN

BB Kings Blue's club on Beale Street The View from our hotel - the Autozone Ball park....watched fireworks one night from there after a game.

Another view from our room, The Fed Ex forum....the plaza below was filled with vendors on the weekend. It had been raining that day so they all packed up and went home.

The infamous Hooters was our main view out our hotel room....not the best thing to see.

Alice and I climbing aboard the Lisa Marie Airplane at Graceland

Laney & I enjoying a ride on the Trolley, that was our daily transportation back and forth from our hotel to the Convention Center

More of my Utah PTA friends standing in front of the balcony where Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. The wreath signifies the place of his death.

Our first night in Memphis on Beale street, the banner in the back welcomes National PTA to Memphis

My friend Laney and I in Memphis TN

Some of my friends from Utah PTA at our favorite restaurant in Memphis-The Arcade

My roomies and good friends at Graceland

In just one of the rooms that holds all of Elvis' gold records at Graceland

My friend Alice and I on Beale Street in Memphis, ready to hear some Blue's Music

June 9th-14th I was in Memphis, TN for the National PTA Convention. We stayed one block off of Beale street, so we could hear the night life into the wee hours of the morning. We went to Beale street almost every night to check out the shops, see all the people and even went to a Blue's Club to hear the music. Everyday we rode their trolley back and forth to our convention, it was the cheapest transportation, each trolley was different and unique. We went to Graceland for an afternoon, we spent a few hours going through the Civil Rights Museum. I didn't know that Dr. Martin Luther King was killed there. After going through the museum I was embarrassed of how cruel African Americans were treated back then.

The weather was rainy the first couple of days and then it was very hot and humid. I am so glad I live in the Desert where it's a dry heat. I had a lot of fun hanging with my PTA friends and just having some girl time. Spending 5 nights in a hotel didn't hurt either, having breakfast cooked for me and eating out....although towards the end I really just wanted a home cooked meal. The food in the south is very heavy, I was sick of smelling Barbecue by the time I came home. I haven't been called Mam so many times in my life, they are very polite and friendly in the South.