Trip home Day 3-4

Days 1 and 2 were both spent in North Carolina.  After leaving NC we drove through South Carolina and Georgia.  We got to Atlanta around midnight so we couldn't really stop to do anything, so we just drove around a little.  It was a little scary to be there that late.  There were quite a few homeless people all over the city.  We did get a picture of the Coca-Cola factory.

We continued to drive through the night, stopping at a church in Birmingham, Alabama for a quick nap.  As morning came, we passed Tupelo, Mississippi which is the hometown of Elvis Presley (love him!)

We kept driving through Northern Mississippi and upward to Memphis, Tennesee.  I was really excited to go to Memphis for some reason.  I really wanted to see Graceland, and I've just heard it's a cool city.  All over the eastern states there are Waffle Houses so Britt and I definitely wanted to eat at one of those before our trip was over.  We got to Memphis at around 8 in the morning, so we just typed in 'Waffle House' in the GPS and went to the closest one.  Now I hope no one is offended by this, but we were the only white people in the whole restaurant.  When we walked in the doors, everyone was staring at us like, "what are these girls doing in here?"  We ate our breakfast, which wasn't anything special, but it was pretty good, then we went to the motel we were planning on staying at.  All I can say is thank goodness we didn't pre-pay for that place because it was SCARY!  We got out of there in a flash.  We drove around a little trying to find another place that was in our budget, but everything else seemed even worse!  Since it was still early in the day and we weren't super tired, we just decided that we would keep driving a little and stop in Little Rock, Arkansas for the night.

First we had to see Elvis country though  :)  I love Elvis and we really wanted to see Graceland, but admission to the house was about $35 dollars each, plus $10 for parking, so we didn't quite think it was worth it.  We tried to drive around and see if we could just see the outside of the house, but it's so surrounded by trees that you can't see anything.  We found some cool gift shops to get some souvenirs though before heading west to Little Rock for the night.

Not much to say about Arkansas, except that there are lots of Wal-Marts. haha.  Wal-Mart started in Arkansas, so they are all over the place.  It was a nice, safe place to stay.  When we got to Little Rock, I called my mom and she had talked to a friend at work who went on his mission to Memphis.  When she told him that we were in Memphis, the first thing he said was, "tell them to get out". haha.  I'm sure it's not all bad and there are very nice places that we didn't get to experience, but we were glad to be a little closer to home anyway.  Instead of a 12 hour drive to Amarillo it was 9, so that was nice.