My 'belated' 2018 Memphis Vacation Wrapup

My sincerest apologies for not presenting this journal sooner.  I will no do this again.    Also, WARNING!  This will be a long journal.  Better get a comfy chair ready.

The vacation went off to an auspicious start.  The plane shifted in a reverse #Timewarp.  The plane darted to the right, then mosey on over to the left.  (I have never seen the #RockyHorrorPictureShow, I know the reference from #TeamKnightRider & #TheDrewCarreyShow.  (Anybody remembers those two tv programmes?)  Other the turbulence from the thunderstorms near Memphis, the flight was smooth.  Dad got a rental car.  (This was the first time my family and I rented a car from Memphis' on-site rental car facility.)  We settled on a Chevy Malibu, I think.  (I didn't get a perfect photograph of the rental, so you'll have to tell me which car we got for the vacation.)  At least we had SiriusXM for this trip.  That's good.  We stopped by a burger joint called Huey's.  I had a Bluff City Burger.  ("Bluff City" is a less common nickname for Memphis, TN.)  It's the restaurant's BBQ burger.  Dad dropped Nancy & I at Aunt Christi's house, while he checked in at Candlewood Suites.  We mingled for a bit (too long!) before heading back to the hotel.  (We didn't go to bed until 1 AM.  That's a bit late, even for me.)

The morning was hectic.  The graduation ceremony was in the morning at the Landers Center (formerly the Desoto Civic Center, the hockey arena of the currently in hiatus Mississippi Riverkings minor league hockey team and the presently active Memphis Hustle minor league basketball team).  Dad, Nancy & I had to get breakfast at Chick-fil-A because our hotel doesn't serve free breakfast  (Don't blame us, Candlewood was the only remaining hotel in the area that still had rooms available.)  We had to bring along some relatives along to the ceremony.  (I will post a mild warning when posting pictures of the Landers Center.  Why?  Mississippi's state flag has the Confederate state flag (dubbed "The Stars and Bars" by some), and the US Civil war has become "taboo" in this day and age.)  We sat in the back of the area due to the crowd.  I did get some good pictures, but the moment when Caroline got her diploma, the pictures were either bad or blurry!    I will ask my relatives for better pictures.  (Also, Dad still has the previous cell phone that I used to have, and he complained that the picture quality was starting to go.  He wants to get a new one.)  We did get some photos with the graduate after the ceremony, although we were forced out by ushers because the arena was booked with ceremonies all holiday weekend.  We had a party.  Jim Neely's Interstate Bar-B-Q catered the meal.  (I'll be honest; only the pulled pork was good.  The coleslaw & beans are mediocre.)  Dad and I went to Zaxby's for dinner.  I had their Chicken Fingerz plate.  (Yes, Zaxby's spell their "S" with a "Z."  #BecausePoorLiteracyisKewl! ) It was good.  I hope to try the chain again because the joint is nowhere past Texas.  I got tired and headed back to the hotel early.