Food and other Fun!

Do you ever plan a trip around places you want to eat?  Well, we sorta did that.  We arranged to spend our first night in Eureka Springs with the plan to eat at Ermilio's Italian Home Cooking.  We had eaten here some 30 years ago and according to the google, it was still in operation.  We remembered the roasted garlic they brought to your table to spread on the good bread.  They still had it and it was delicious!

Here was David's entree..............

And this was mine............... and of course there was the bread and a really good salad!

It was a good thing we carbed up on the way to the University of Arkansas because the food offerings at the track meet were nil.  You weren't allowed to bring anything in and the concession stand only had hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, and limited candy bars, and of course, a $5 bottle of water.

My sister ordered Dominoes Pizza the first night and it was ............OK, but not what I was craving.  Fortunately our hotel offered a pretty good complimentary breakfast.  The second evening (everyone else headed home, but we were continuing our "vacation"), we went to a restaurant called Farm to Table and it was very good, although very loud due to the group of sorority girls and their moms at the next table.  We stopped for ice cream on the way back to the hotel and that helped cool our ears down.

Driving to Memphis on Sunday, we stopped for lunch at..........

and boy, was it some good catfish!  Our first stop in Memphis was the Bass Pro Shoppe Pyramid.  We enjoyed the architecture and shopped a little.

An interior shot.............

Then we headed to the Peabody Hotel to see the ducks in the fountain in the lobby.  We parked in the parking garage and were a little confused as to what the proper thing to do with our guns was (we didn't have any, but thought the signage was a little confusing).

Five of the cutest ducks were swimming in the fountain in the lobby.

And at 5 pm, a red carpet was rolled out for the ducks to use (you wouldn't want them to slip on the marble floor, would you?) to get to the elevator that would take them to their overnight accommodations on the rooftop

It was quite the eventful procession!

Then we walked a couple of blocks to Beale Street to eat at the Blues City Cafe.  Again, delicious.  David had the ribs and I had shrimp and crab stuffed mushrooms and a salad.

There was a pink cadillac on the wall

And a couple of shots of the street.  My sister warned us about being there after dark and there was a National Guard presence.  We didn't linger because rain (and a pretty good storm) was coming.

The next (very cold and windy) morning, we headed to Graceland.  More about that in another post!

Christi