Woke up for our last morning at the Holiday Inn, a quick breakfast, packing and crossing the road. We were booked into the Peabody, Maria mentioned a FEW times that she felt much more at home. Personally, while I like it I do thinks it’s a bit over the top.
They keep threatening us with a spell of bad weather on the horizon, so we thought we’d take advantage of the fact that it was still reasonable and ride the ducks. These are an interesting way to tour Memphis, the vehicles are amphibious so they can go along the streets and on the river. Great fun. Something of an interactive ride since we were all given ‘quackers’ and expected to join in with the music and to quack at pedestrians. You know sometimes I wonder just how old Maria and John are, they take to these childish activities far to readily, Maria positively hogged the quacker, I hardly got to have a go at all.
It has been very humid today so after the tour we just had an ice cream and drifted back to the Peabody where I became better acquainted with the ducks.
They’re very friendly but did have a tendency to try and make me join them in the water, just because they like splashing about all day doesn’t mean we’re all mad keen on swimming. We stayed to watch the ducks retire for the night. I still think it’s an incredible amount of fuss, I mean I don’t expect people to roll out the red carpet for me just ‘cos I’m going to bed.
We really loved B B Kings last night so decided to go there again. The food was as good as ever and this time we even had dessert. It was an incredible layered chocolate cake, intended for 2 to share, we made it go 3 ways and still had plenty. I love the sign on their shop: ‘Opening times  am – closing’. Maria reckons she could do with that on her studio, except it would commit her to opening before noon.
We’re forecast some thunderstorms for tommorrow, and John actually has to start working, so I’ve no idea what Maria and I will do. Mind you we could easily while away the time without ever going outside, there’s a shopping mall, cinemas, bars and retaurants all within the complex.Â