Elvis and Monroe, LA

If you want to tour Elvis' home and en his get the full looksy at all his stuff, even his planes you have to hand over a lot of dough.  But if you can get up by 7:30AM then you can enter his "meditation garden" and walk around his yard for free.   You can pay your respects to Elvis and his parents who are buried alongside him. Mami and Jim did just that.  Mami met a French man and a Scot and shared some stories of our family and our show. Below is a picture of them with Mami in front of Elvis' house.

Jim and Mami were the only ones willing to wake up that early.


Packed up we headed south, deep south.  We took a very interesting scenic route to Monroe, LA.  Our hope is to visit the Duck Dynasty place tomorrow morning so we aimed to come here before driving the last 45 miles to Winsboro to set up for the show tomorrow. (Show on Saturday)  The drive took us through the real Louisiana. We drove through some very cool little towns.  I  was surprised at how flat Mississippi and Arkansas were, at least the parts we drove through.   Wisteria grows wild out here all over old trees and it is quite stunning. Today's drive was a relaxing 4 and a half hours instead of the grueling 10 hours we often have to do.   I remember we 19 hours was easy.   What I am saying is I am getting old.

Since we got here so early the kids were able to enjoy a ladder ball, aka HIllbilly Golf. Amelia ended up beating everyone and is officially the champion and she won't hesitate to tell you so.