I'm all shook up

Today was awesome...although it was also very HOT. At one point in Tennessee, it was 109 with probably 90% humidity. I could never live there!
We went to Graceland. We detoured first to Walgreens and bought aviater glasses and I got an Elvis t-shirt and Ryan got an Elvis hat, and we both got matching earrings to wear into Graceland. We also bought a bunch of other stuff there too, since we figured it would be the same as the stuff at Graceland, just way cheaper and we were right.
Graceland was so totally awesome! It's amazing to stand in a place where someone so famous and historial actually lived for 20 years. I kept thinking Graceland seemed so much bigger, not that it wasn't big...but...just seemed small. Guess I'm too used to MTV Cribs and stuff. Although Elvis had 24 k gold plated seatbeat clips on his jet airplane, so you can't deny he was stylish. It was so amazing to see all his gold albums and jumpsuits. What a lifestyle. His cars and his planes...we really enjoyed ourselves there. Then we ended up at another souvenir shop outside Graceland and scored some more stuff. This was by far the number one stop on the trip for me, so I went a little wild buying stuff.
Then we headed to this bbq place that was listed in my book. Ryan had actually seen it featured on the food channel and we ended up in Mississippi, so it was a two for one deal: good bbq AND another state. Interstate BBQ...ohmygod...it was the best bbq EVER! We had bbq spaghetti and ribs...mmm mmmm. Bought some bbq sauce for my new place too. We were the only white people in the place too. Talk about an experience.
So we had to skip Dollywood because Aunt Dolores' 80th birthday party got moved up to Saturday instead of sunday, so we mapped to Cleveland, and ended up driving to Louisville (Lullville according to locals) to stay the night. We're right across the street from Six Flag Kentucky and the Cardinals (college) hall of fame cafe, so Ryan and I ended up going over there to have a refreshing beer. There was an absolute annoying jerk in the bar that said he was from a "shitty little town in Pennsylvania." We sure hope he's not my neighbor.
I'm pretty sure I missed something that my mom and Ryan wanted me to post on here, but I'm getting tired so I'm going to wrap this up for tonight. Tomorrow we head to Cleveland and perhaps the Rock and Roll hall of fame. We're also officially in east coast time, so it's weird to think it's still early in Cali. I think I'm already adjusted to the time though.
Ryan is on the phone with Nicholas right now. He wants to know where we are right now, so he went downstairs to check out the states map I bought the boys that is a magnet. Sometimes I forget he can't be a cute little 8 year old boy. Ryan just told him he'd be surprised that I bought him a gift. I got him a bookmark from Graceland. We listened to the cd Nick made me last night when I was driving too. I won't bore all with details...but it's a cool cd because he knows the bands I like and is starting to like them too. And then he threw on the Harry Potter theme song for me, and the "I've been everywhere" song since we're traveling.
Ok now I'm really heading to bed.