Fill Up A Drink... Mazeltov!

Sorry I didn't post there for a couple of days... the forum was a really hectic place... especially for a newb like me... it was my first forum and I tell you I'm not used to that many Lions in one place... at our convention we get maybe 6 or 7 hundred lions... there was over 2900 lions from all over the world at the forum... mostly from North America but we had directors and such that flew in from their respective countries...

So Thursday morning we went on a tour with two bus loads of Lions to Graceland... Now I'm not a huge Elvis fan... I appreciate what he did for music and I like his music but have never felt the need to go to his house. But when in Rome... as they say... So I went and roamed around the complex and the mansion grounds with all the other people who were wearing headsets and listening to a tour guide via the headset... coming out of the raquet ball building and seeing the beautiful meditation garden and the pool, you come around and there is Elvis' grave. The tour goes on to tell you that after Elvis died and was buried next to his mother in the cemetary, Vernon (his father) went and got permission to transport Elvis', Gladys' and Mae's bodies from the cemetary to the Graceland property so that no one could defile the graves in any way.

I stood there and looked around the grounds and then back down at the grave site and almost started to cry. It wasn't that I was sad that he was dead, he has been since before I was actually born. Anyway... Yeah I'm a big sap and got choked up at the grave side of the King of Rock n' Roll...

This is me with one of his many cars... I looooove the colour it was gorgeous... I totally wanted to take it home...

This is me (obviously) in front of an airbrushed picture down on Beale St on Friday night. It was fantastic down there!! I loved snooping around in Tater Red's and listening to all the music... watching the people... and seeing all the sights... I'd definitely go back when I could go in and sit at the bars and listen to the music... I didn't go into BB King's but stood outside and listened in.

This was actually just before heading down to Beale St but enh... This impersonators name was Danny, and he and his family used to live behind Graceland when he was a young boy. Elvis had been friends with his older brothers and they would go over to ride around the grounds with Elvis and his golf carts sometimes. So now he impersonates him, and actually he's not too shabby either. Helps that he already has the Memphis accent down pat ;)

I'm sitting here in Ohio again I'll show ya the ground we covered today in just a moment...

all I have to say is it was a looooong ass day today in the van heading eastward again...

we've been discussing going to the next two forums... next years would be cheaper to go to... but the year afters would be waaaaay cooler to go to...

Next years is in Milwaukee WI and the year after is in Anchorage AK... so we'll see how that goes...

Ok here's the ground we covered today...

Doesn't look very far but it's 673 miles in 12 1/2 hrs...

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but I miss my boys and my men... and I'm so ready to be home now...

love to Bing and the man...

I Forgot To Say Out Loud How Beautiful You Really Are To Me

Today seemed like such a long day...

Then ya look at the map of the ground we covered... Yeah... Long day.

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Dixie Stampede in Pigeon Forge.

Parthenon in Nashville.

Me and Sugar @ Sugar's Roadhouse in Mt Pleasant.

Me and Luke (the driver of our pink stretch limo), he drove us over to Marlowe's for some kick ass food, in Memphis.

Tomorrow we head to Graceland and then the Forum starts in the afternoon... so the Lions portion of the trip starts... post more tomorrow.

...Many Captive Chimps Are Treated Like People... (some show in the background)

Yesterday's trip...

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Today's Trip...

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Tired and sitting in a hotel lobby in order to use internet...

Post more tomorrow... maybe even some pictures...

I'm Gonna Muster Every Ounce Of Confidence I Have...

Oh...man...

That's what this state should be called instead of Ohio.

Got into Ohio to where we were going last night and found the house of the people we were staying the night with.

They weren't home.

So we waited on their porch for three hours for them to get here. Just before they got home we ordered pizza from a nearby Domino's that we found online that delivered.

Because you know I got bored prayed and pulled out the laptop to find that they have an unsecured wireless network.... niiiice.

Got in touch with the man and the kidlet to say that we got here. Ordered the pizza online for delivery, and waited.

When she got home she felt bad that we had waited so long and that we ended up ordering pizza to be delivered to their porch.

They were nice enough people, we'll be seeing them again on Sunday when we're coming back through to go home again.

We made pretty good time coming down too. We were over the border at 8am and getting here to their porch at about 2:45ish. that's with stopping for an hour for lunch.

covered about 500 miles.

So we're leaving this morning and heading through West By God Virginia and will just catch Virginia as we deke into Tennessee from the east.

I just finished having the worst shower in the world... water pressure was going in and out and the temperature was going back and forth... I have long semi thick hair and man it was hard to rinse out conditioner with water that felt like a tepid rain shower.

I got to curl up in bed last night and nearly fall asleep on the man... get this... at 10 o'clock. *laughs*

I was so tired from not getting any sleep the day before that I was falling asleep at like 9.

so I retired into the bedroom and skyped him and chatted with him til I nearly passed out. Got out the ipod and listened to probably two songs before falling asleep before 10:30... Yeah how often you hear me telling you that...?

So I didn't get to talk to my Bing last night, that made me a bit sad. But the man kept me company and even got a front row seat to most everything we did via webcam. Even got to wave at the kidlet and show him the view from the porch which btw is a pretty great view if you want to live in the middle of no where surrounded by hills and trees.

Saw some deer munching away on some grass and got to listen to some angry locusts... now that's an interesting sound. It got all real quiet on the porch and then came this sound... reminded me of Deliverance or something...

Anyway... so that was pretty much the first day of the trip... tonight y'all get to hear about the dinner show we're going to and the trials and tribulations of getting there.

oh yeah.. and happy birthday too me... *twirls finger in a whoop dee doo fashion*

I love you my guys.

post soon to those who still actually read this.

oh yeah and freaked me out when I went to Google and it was actually Google.com and not .ca :P