After we all ate, we headed off to the Pink Palace Museum, which opened at 9am. I saw this museum online and it was described as a "Memphis history/history of the south" museum. Instantly, I was interested. I love history, and this was someplace that none of us had been to. The price was a little steep, at $12.75/per adult, but it was two floors and I figured, why not try it out. The first floor was filled with prehistoric fossils and animal skeletons. They had everything from a dog and cat to a hummingbird. The hummingbird was really neat to see, actually.
They also had dinosaurs and a rock/geology section. I was beginning to worry, after about an hour we had been through the entire first floor and I was thinking to myself... "Oh no..when it said history museum, I was expecting to see artifacts from like, 1920, not a bunch of fossils from the Mississippi river.." I also thought the boys would be mad at me for picking a boring museum, since the theme of the weekend was "do whatever Kim says".. not that I usually mind being treated like a queen, but you know. We go up the stairs to start on the second floor and...it totally redeemed this visit for me!
Memphis history! Display cases filled with 1900's artifacts, just what I was expecting. They had a section of pottery, most likely from Native Americans, from there it went into "pioneers" with a log cabin and tools and guns they would have used. We wandered into an exhibit that had the first Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Memphis, circa 1908 (I believe) that had the shelves stocked and everything.
I don't think I could bring myself to eat "lunch tongue"...
We also walked through an old Pharmacy with a certificate on the wall from 1898.
They had an exhibit on World War 1 and 2 medicine, and as we wandered around to the other side of the museum, we came across a weather exhibit where we could build our own volcano and watch it erupt, jump next to a seismograph machine that measures earthquakes, and sit in an art exhibit that had projection screens in the round and you felt like you were sitting through a tornado. They had clouds on the ceiling that made thunder and light up like lightning as well :)
As you come out of the weather exhibit, you can go into the mansion that is connected to the museum for even more exhibits. This one exhibit wing has a kitchen from 1930, which I took a picture of this chicken dish because my grandmother had one that we put peppermint candies in.
They also had apparrel from the 30's-50's, more World War 2 weapons and military uniforms, and taxidermied animals in the main foyer of the mansion.
We headed down to Beale St. after leaving the museum and went into A. Schwab's. I loved this place last time, it's a three story store with everything from Memphis trinkets on the bottom floor to voodoo spells on the thrid floor. They also have a fun soda shop in it, and I got a Peach Float. (For free!) They had two new employees working at the shop that day and they were so flustered about being slow and having to look up how to make everything that she told us that all four of our drinks were on the house. So we left her a tip in just about the amount of what they would have cost.
After leaving Beale St., we decided to get some lunch at Drew's favorite BBQ place, Central BBQ. The line was out the door, so we decided to eat at Drew's apartment and went to the take-out window to order ordered our pulled pork sandwiches and mac&cheese side. For Micah and I both, it ended up being like $13. Can't beat the price, and the food was AMAZING! I was told that if I didn't let them put coleslaw on it, I was the devil, so eventhough I don't like coleslaw, it was still a good burger. You don't actually taste the coleslaw, it just gives the sandwich a little crunch.
Our chosen brewery tour at High Cotton Brewing Co. wasn't until 3pm, so we got some time to sit at Drew's and let our food settle. We had an adventure ending up at High Cotton. Luke wanted to do a brewery tour this weekend, so I had researched four local places. We tried to do the Wiseacre Brewery tour, but it's only offered at noon on Saturdays and the tour was full when I went to get us tickets on their website. So, we were going to try the Pyramid Vodka factory. I called the number on their website and no one answered. Not even an answering machine. So, no to that as well. So even though it was third on my list, I'm glad we went here. The tour itself is $12 and is only offered at 3pm on Saturday. They don't have a tour limit, so the four of us got tickets by walking into the Brewery at 2:40pm.
The actual tour itself, is about 15 minutes long and the brewmaster just tells you the basics about beer. Most of the people in our tour had been on brewery tours before (which was something the brewmaster asked) so he didn't go into great detail. At the start of the tour, everyone gets a glass with about half a cup of beer in it to take with you on the tour. The best part is that you get to keep the glass :) I didn't drink mine, but if you're a beer lover, this is a great tour because you get to sample four of their beers, each "sample" ends up being about half a glass full, and if you stay and "chat" after the tour is over, the brewmaster brought out a keg and let you have some of that as well.
I just went because I enjoy seeing how things are made and I got a free drinking glass with the Brewery's name on it.
We walked to Midtown and ate at Memphis Pizza Cafe for dinner and were going to sit and listen to live music at Lafayette's, but we decided against it for standing room only and walked the 3/4 mile back to Drew's apartment where the guys played Rocket League the rest of the evening.
Sunday morning we skipped breakfast and headed to the Peabody hotel to watch the duck march at 11am. This time, I actually got to see the ducks jump into the fountain!
We got popsicles! Mine was watermelon and Micah's was Mango-Chile. I can't speak for Micah, but mine was delicious.
I feel like we could have packed more into our schedule for the weekend, but I'm glad we didn't. We made memories together with friends and had a nice weekend away. Thanks Drew for letting us eat your groceries and use your water to shower!
Until next time: Memphis, thanks for a great weekend.
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