A relaxed morning under the tall sycamore trees in the cg.......drinking some dark French Roast coffee. Then...after taking a few pics of the cg for the club members to view, we headed into Memphis....14 miles from the cg. We decided to take a quick look at the Tom Sawyer CG which is right on the bank of the Mississippis River on the Arkansas side. It is really nice.....GREAT views, and very new. Some negatives are the lack of WiFi, no cable tv, and only two restrooms albeit they are brand new. When I saw "two".....that is literally correct....only two individual rooms, but quite nice. Think we will stay there the next time we come down here for a weekend or so........just some variety.
Off across the River we then went.....and this time stopped at the official Memphis Visitor Center by the Pyramid. After some discussion we decided to take the 45 minutes Trolley ride which runs parallel with the river for a bit and then turns north and passes by some various redeveloped areas/neighborhoods with new apts, lofts, etc.
After that we drove east thru Memphis and went thru some other historic areas and came across a little shop: Makeda's Butter Cookies. Well, I had just read about this little shop on the net.....and how wonderful the cookies are.......and....YEP, outstanding!!!!!! We bought six and have slowly enjoyed the extremely rich cookies all day.
From there we went down across the state line into Mississippi to try out another BBQ place that is highly rated.......Interstate BBQ. Really quite good......but, it doesn't live up to the wonderful BBQ we had last night at Rendezvous Cafe!!!! Drove on to a Sam's Club......and wandered through this mecca for quantity sized items, throwing a few in our shopping cart!! Then after much discussion we decided to take in a movie........"Prime". Outstanding........very humorous.....and a really enjoyable flick. I highly recommend it to everyone!!
The drizzle began to come down, so we opted out of returning for an evening on Beale Street. Didn't have umbrellas in the truck, and we didn't feel like getting all drippy......ugh!!
Sooo, as I finish this up while I am listening to a Nora Jones CD.....the rain begins again and stronger. We must return to the stick and brick tomorrow......UGH!!!!!!!!! Oh well.......
Life is GOOD.......and I hope for all of you, also!!
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