"Walking in Memphis"

Capri on her first plane ride. We are getting ready for take off. 11pm!!!
Home of Elvis. We had to go and see "Graceland"
Alan and his grandfather "Earl". He is a very brillant man. We had a great time visiting with him.
This is Alan and his 3 uncles on his mom's side of the family. His mom had 12 brothers and sisters and this is the 3 siblings still alive.
Me hanging with the kids. Capri didn't want her picture taken.


So Capri went on her first plane ride to Memphis, Tennessee. We left on Thursday night and came back on Monday night. The flight out was not so bad until we got to Atlanta for our connecting flight to Memphis and we had a two hour lay over and then another two hour delay for mechanical error. That was fun with a two year old. We finally got to Memphis. We visited with lots of family. Had a few BBQ's....of course we are in the South!! Capri had a blast playing with all of the kids. We got to visit with Alan's grandfather it is amazing the stories he has to tell and all of the details he remembers. We stayed at a hotel not too far from the famous "Beale St". We were also in town for the "Elvis Week" it is fun to see how many travel to Memphis for this event. We saw the candlelight vigil they had on Saturday night for him at Graceland. The flight home was interesting. We hurried and did last minute visits and shopping before heading to the airport and when we got to the airport we find out that our flight had been canceled. Of course, first thought isn't that great. We already dropped the rental car off and checked out of the hotel. So we had to the counter to find out and we got "LUCKY". We got moved to a direct flight from Memphis to Phoenix with no lay over in Atlanta and we got to sit in "FIRST CLASS"! I bet the others in first class were happy to know that there would be a 2 year old in first class. She actually slept the entire way home. We got home almost 3 hours early because of the cancelation!!! YEAH!! We had a great time. Alan was so happy to see his family. I am spoiled and sometimes take it for granted that my family is all so close. It has been over 2 years since he has seen his family. Thank you to Teresa and Zach for taking care of the dog and cleaning for me.