"Cousin's Weekend"!!

Lynelle arrived in Memphis on Friday, but unfortunately I had to work all day and volunteer at an auction that night, so I couldn’t actually see her until Saturday evening after we finished work. Some of my teammates dropped me off and came in to meet her and then we met up with them again (a couple hours later because of slow taxis!) for dinner at Huey’s in downtown Memphis. We were starving when we got there, so we devoured our food as soon as it came! After dinner with my team, Lynelle, Alleigh, Eric and I continued on to Beale Street for the night. It was really fun, but exhausting! We ended up sleeping in until 1pm the next day! We took a cab downtown again and walked around during the day, had a late lunch at Hooters and then went to see the Ducks at The Peabody Hotel (if you don’t know what this is, it is actually a pretty big event and I don't think I can describe it well enough, so you might wanna Google it! Haha) After seeing the ducks, we went to the Rock ‘N Soul Museum and learned about Elvis and the importance of music in Memphis’ history. When we got back to the hotel that night, we realized that we were finally getting kinda hungry again after our late lunch, so we asked the lady at the front desk about ordering-in options and she told us about Marlowe’s Restaurant. Apparently Marlowe’s has a sweet deal where if you are staying in a local hotel (which we were), they will pick you up in a FREE PINK LIMO and bring you to the restaurant for dinner, then bring you back to your hotel after dinner! That deal sounded too good to pass up, so of course we took it up! The other cool thing about that was that the restaurant was on Elvis Presley Boulevard, so we passed Graceland and his private plane and all that cool stuff, so the driver was giving us some fun facts about Elvis and Lynelle and I both developed a new appreciation for The King and his “new to us” attractive looks. The next day we got up early(ish), before noon anyway and went to the Memphis Zoo! We spent a good 4.5 hours there and got to see lots of awesome Giraffes, Pandas, Elephants, miniature horses, and other cool animals! That evening we ordered in some Dominoes pizza and watched The Bachelor! It was a great ending to a wonderful weekend vacation/visit with Lynelle! I had such a blast! Thanks again, Nellie! Miss y’all and love you even more!

P.S.- this title comes from my team who was so excited to meet and hang out with Lynelle that they dubbed that weekend “Cousin’s Weekend” weeks before her arrival :0)