September 26, 2011
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Mr. and Mrs. & Mississippi Part 1
Tom and I try to ‘get away’ for a long weekend once a year for our anniversary (September 24). This year we decided to combine that with a visit to Sam, our son, who was transferred to the Corinth, Mississippi store early this year. So, we headed south!
But first, we had to spend a little time in Memphis, Tennessee. We traditionally get in a game of miniature golf. We found a ‘Putt-Putt’ course in Memphis thanks to GPS, and Tom won handily, getting several ‘holes in one’.
The Winner!
Then Tom drove a few balls. The weather was just perfect- nice breeze and just the right amount of warm.
We redeemed our nice Cracker Barrel gift cards- I didn’t get a picture of the Memphis CB we visited, but did get this one in Mississippi, just south of Memphis.
The Mister in the Ole Miss chair.
Memphis is VERY close to the Mississippi/Arkansas borders, so I wasn’t sure which state I was in sometimes. We did drive by Graceland, the Elvis Presley home, but didn’t go in. “Not our thang”, but we were curious what it looked like. It was interesting that it was so business/residential- I had thought it was an estate way outside of Memphis. (No picture- went by too fast).
We went on down to Corinth- which is just barely over the Tennessee/Mississippi state line. I think Sam said that from his place the line is about three miles north of him. Not far, anyway. We met up with him at his place.
He has a nice place with “Ranger Danger” in front of it.
He took us out to dinner at “The Dinner Bell”- a nice family place, with good home-style food. I would recommend it. It is Cracker Barrel-esque. Then we stopped by Sam’s store to see the latest and greatest in Kmart merchandise.
Recommended by Sam- Smart Energy Drink Mix.
That’s all the time I have for posting right now-stay tuned, more to come!
Comments (3)
~~ I like how you casually mentioned a new post….I think I am going to just do that or put on my fb wall without the xanga site. ~~ Anyway, more importantly….Good photos and account of your trip. Nice to see Sam, his place and the neat one you took of the K-mart board with Sam’s photo on it. Mom and Dad had gone by Elvis Presley’s home way back when and took a photo of the gates. They weren’t going in or anything…just mom wanted a photo. I’m thinking they parked their car and took pix of themselves outside the gates. Guess one of these days I will have to blow off the dust of the photo albums and put the memories back into my memory bank.
@SpringsTruth - I felt that the post was not really facebook-worthy- that is kind of more exposure than I wanted. I may go ahead and link the Shiloh post (when I get that done- not sure when I have time in the next couple of days) to facebook, since I think it might be interesting to more people than the family stuff I have on this current entry.
So glad you were able to make this trip! Sounds & looks like you all had a relaxing and pleasurable experience together! Also, I like Sam’s beard/goatee. It looks good on him!