Our "romantic" Stay-cation

Bryan and I had this big plan to go on a romantic vacation for our 14th anniversary. At first it was going to be somewhere tropical, like the Bahamas. Well, after thinking it through we decided that it would be better to wait. Bailey's tuition was due and we are trying to save up money to buy a new house... So we thought maybe we could go to this really cool water park in Mississippi. But then, we couldn't get a reservation at the hotel that we wanted. We were determined to spend some time together ALONE, so we reserved a room downtown and planned a "staycation".

Our plan was to leave Sunday morning. Mom came over and we were getting ready to head out the door when we hear knock, knock... My grandparents were at the door. They had driven up from Medon and had stopped by Mom's house and found out that she was at our house. So, we stayed and visited for a little while.

We finally took off for downtown. After checking into our hotel, we dropped our bags in our room and headed out for some hometown sight seeing. We rode the trolley all over downtown. I have never been on the trolley and it was actually pretty fun. After that we took a walk by the river and around downtown. I've never been down there on a Sunday. It was really quiet and peaceful and there are so many cool buildings and neat things to see. We went to the Peabody and saw the ducks and then walked over to Bigfoot Lodge and had dinner. After that we went back to the hotel and Bry went swimming while I layed out on the roof of the hotel. The water was like ice, no thank you. I did do some time in the jacuzzi though. We decided to hang out in the room and watch tv instead of going out. We don't really get into the party scene. It was nice to just hang out together and be lazy. The view from our room was AMAZING! The windows took up 3 whole walls. We could see the bridge, the pyramid and most of downtown. We had fun watching people on the streets below. There are some very interesting people downtown to say the least.

After sleeping in, which is around 8 am for us, we ate breakfast at the hotel's buffet. YUM! Then we walked all over downtown. We spent some time on Beale St. looking in the shops and goofing off. After we checked out of our hotel, we had lunch at Jillians and then headed for Graceland. I am a big Elvis fan and oddly enough have never been there. Well, that hasn't changed. There were hundreds of people waiting to get in and it would have been a couple of hours until our turn so we went through all of the gift shops instead.

We ended up going home earlier than we meant to because Mom had called the night before and informed us that Bay and Luke had a fever and were not feeling too well. Even though we started late, didn't stay very long and didn't do all that we wanted to we had a great time. Just being together was the best part.

Oh, I had to include the pics of the kids with their souvenirs. We got Luke some Elvis glasses. He was hilarious. He kept calling himself a rock star and saying Hey baby! :) Bay got a bracelet with her name on it and a new Webkin (of course). Presley got a t-shirt that says "Elvis is the king of rock n roll, but I'm the princess". They loved their gifts but mostly they were happy that Mommy and Daddy were home. So were we.