Memphis, Tennessee

We arrived at our couchsurfing host in Memphis around 1:00pm yesterday afternoon. Lana lives in a beautiful neighbourhood filled with many huge oak trees. She wasn't home when we arrived, so we just parked on the street for a couple of hours.

Took Whiskey for a couple of walks around the neighbourhood. We decided to move Sherman into Lana's driveway where it's fairly level rather than leave him on the street because the fridge had been turned off part of the day. It turned out that was fine, and Sherman can remain parked beside the house for the next couple of days.

Lana and her daughters made some soup for supper and invited us to join them. Ruth brought a salad, and we brought some of our homemade wine and enyoyed a nice dinner together. Afterwards Lana's boyfriend Wayne came over and we chatted for the rest of the evening.

Lana (holding Coco) with daughters Michelle and Rachel.

Lana is an artist who specializes in glass blowing. Hopefully we'll get some time over the next couple of days where she can show us how she makes these interesting items...

http://ginkgoglass.artspan.com/

This morning, we are going to hop on the city bus and go to Graceland. It costs $1.50 each to get there. Compare that to the $3.25 that the bus costs back home in Ottawa. Like I've said, everything in the U.S. is much cheaper than in Canada.

Check back this evening when we'll put up a post about how our day with Elvis went!