Kent Family Magic Circus Daily Blog: Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

Well, we are spending a second day in memphis on our flip-flop (return) from Louisiana. We intentionally made it so that we had a day to play with and I am glad we did. It was a night full of thunderstorms. It cleared up enough for those of us that did not get the chance to visit Elvis' meditation garden (his grave site) last week to do so this week; it is only open free to the public from 7:30AM to 8:30AM each day.

That meant we had to wake up early. 7:15 hurts! But we did and we awoke to o power other than the batteries and then the generator. Graceland area of Memphis had lost power just ate 7AM. As we approached the crosswalk in front of Elvis' old home, now his grave site, we saw an older couple standing there for a long time pushing the crosswalk button. The Aussie couple didn't know the power was out and when we told them then turned and started crossing they ran to stay up with us as a group just in case a wayward crazy driving Yank (Aussie term for Americans, also we are called Septics over there) might run them down.

On going in I was told I could not take my coffee in so I hid it behind a light post near the guard house.

You walk up the driveway and continue right past the stained glassed pool house, then the pool to the circular fountain area (no fountain on at the time due to the power outage). Four graves, his fraternal grandma, Elvis, his father, and his mom, plus a marker for elvis' stillborn twin brother are laid to rest there. His father had the first three moved there a year after Elvis' death in worry of the security at the public cemetery they were buried at (one of the plaques photographed below explains it).

On our walk back we talked with the guard and read the plaque at the guard house. Turns out Elvis' first guard was his very on Uncle Vester. He was a popular fellow in the area and came to be know as Uncle Vester to everyone. I recovered my coffee an we started our trek back.

On the way our pace brought us along a Brit who was there as a birthday present to himself. He is a big Elvis fan and promised that he would go to visit Graceland on his birthday. We chit-chatted a bit and wished him a good day.

Most of the day the kids got good and muddy playing around the rv park. Though this wasn't our original plan. But an arctic blast was due tonight up in Ky and a preceding big wind (up to 60mph gusts) was not a driving situation I wanted to participate in. We are even expected to get into the high 30s tonight here in southern TN. So the best laid plans have been altered.

We will make the drive back to Berea to prepare for the Richmond show on Saturday and the Sunday show in Atlanta. Busy weekend.

I must apologize to mom again tonight, I won't be proofing this blog....I can barely keep my eyes open as it is.