In October I had a 2 week training for work in Memphis, TN. 2 weeks was just too long for me to be away from my Sammy (especially since he had recently spent 2 weeks away at his own training in Utah), so I had him fly out for the weekend in between. This is what we did:
We went to Elvis Presley’s house, more commonly known as Graceland.
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We also visited the hotel where Martin Luther King was shot. It has since been turned into the National Civil Rights Museum.
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Perhaps the highlight was when we visited the Peabody Hotel which is famous for having these ducks that swim in a fountain in the hotel’s lobby. At 5:00 every night a special tune is played and these ducks march in a single file line out of the fountain, down a red carpet, and onto an elevator which leads them up to the roof where they spend the night in an outdoor cage. Kinda wierd if you ask me.
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You can kinda see the red carpet in the top of the picture below.
Notice the sign for the "Duck Palace."
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This is the Duck Palace. Some palace, huh?