FIRST of all- we didn't get the hell out of Bentonville until like, 9 pm, because mom kept having to repack her stuff because she had too much. i don't know WHY i expected her to be on time, because she never is! anyway, on the way to memphis nothing very interesting happened besides some great talks and almot hitting a deer- however, once we got to memphis, things took a turn. Driving into the city towards our hotel downtown, it was 2 am, and we saw a guy stripping an abandoned car of all its parts and putting them in the ack of his friends' pickup- to sell, i presumed. then, we almost saw a douchebag driver almost DIE because both anes were taken up by me driving (already 10 over) in one lane, next to a big semi, so he drove around on the right on the median and literally missed a car entering the highway by like a foot.
we got checked into the hotel, blah dee blah... next day we went to Graceland. oh my god.
i have never had so much Elvis stuffed down my throat- i thought next time i burped, it would be to the tune of "Love Me Tender." omg. Elvis shirts, keychains, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, magnets, pens, GUM... all way overpriced. Overall it was kindof cool, we took a LOT of pictures. his house was cool and all, but the part i really looked forward to seeing we couldn't see- they don't let the general public upstairs to see his bedroom or bathroom (the one he died in) or anything, unless they're family. WHICH, on a side note, i WOULD be if my Grandma had ended up marrying his cousin Terry (Elvis had 2 cousins, Terry and Jerry [lol], and My grandma was engaged to Terry when my mom was little before he went to Vietnam, but since my grandma had been married before and had 3 little girls and the Presley's were Assembly of God, Terry's mama didn't want him to marry her. bitch. I COULD BE RELATED TO ELVIS!!!!)
aaaaanyway, we spent WAY longer than we intended to at Graceland, finaly left for Georgia in the afternoon. on the way, we passed through Mississippi and Alabama, and no joke- the little girl in BFE Alabama didn't know what Starbucks was when my mom asked if there was one nearby. STARBUCKS. fortune 500. she just gave us this blank stare... i could've died.
anyway, we get in to Macon at like 5 in the morning and stayed at this really crappy hotel (don't go to America's best inns- they are the WORST.) Next day i texted MJ, my friend from there and asked her if there was anything we needed to do there before we left, and she told us to go find a Nu-Way hotdog stand. we had no idea what was in store.
We put in the address in the GPS, and it takes us to this ghettooooo neighborhood- like, seriously ghetto. Nu-Way is this litle hole in the wall place, and my mom and i are thinking "oh dear god" and we walk in, and all that are in there are a bunch of old black men and one old white man, and one of them says to us "you ladies might not want to come in here right now" and we're thinking "what the hell..." but before we could ask why, we hear why. this little white girl about my age is screaming to the TOP of her lungs the most PROFANE language! i mean, i've got a little potty mouth on occasion, but these were like, streams of nothing but profanities. finally, this one black guy she works with just carries her ass outside while she's still yelling- apparently she had been not giving customers their change so they fired her, and she freaked out and was refusing to leave, until they called the cops. ALL this before we even got to order!!! apparently Oprah had eaten there, so we got what they were famous for, their hot dogs, and oh my god they were so good. literally the best Hot Dog i have ever eaten.... ever. their fries rocked too, and i liked thier famous "flaky ice" in my coke (oh god, now i'm getting hungry thinking about it).
so we left Macon, got here last night... passed a bunch of interesting signs and took quite a few pictures that i'll post when i can find the cable. I'm so glad i got to make that trip with my mom- it's time like those that as insane as she drives me, i really enjoy being with her.
TODAY BARACK OBAMA WAS INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
i missed his speech because i was in the shower, but the clips i've heard give me hope that he'll be a good president and do our country some good. I don't consider myself to be a conservative or liberal, but I look forward to see what he can do for us, specifically in the economy because the economy blowwwsss right now. that's no news to anyone reading this though. I am so glad i got to see history in the making, watching him and Michelle send off Pres. Bush and Laura in the helicopter- that transfer of power was so awesome. I believe that he will have flaws just like Bush, and hope that change really IS the way this country is headed.
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