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Busy Day through the Attractions of Memphis

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We had a full schedule for day two in Memphis and we were up early at the Madison Hotel to get started. I headed downstairs with my friends Angela, Kylie, and Brittany to the Eighty3 Restaurant in the hotel for breakfast.  The menu had many choices, but we all focused on one – the Elvis Waffles. It’s no secret that Elvis Presley liked peanut butter and bananas, especially not in his hometown of Memphis Eighty3 had the waffles bearing his name done to perfection, with a whipped peanut butter and marshmallow sauce, fresh sliced bananas, and Applewood bacon. After we ate all we possibly could we drove to Memphis’ most famous attraction, Graceland . The former home of Elvis Presley is more like a city than an estate. The “King” made quite a home for himself and his former wife, Priscilla Presley, and daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, have definitely maintained it as quite the attraction. Now, this is the place I make a confession… I was never an Elvis