I attended the National PTA Convention in Memphis, Tennessee in June. The convention was great and I came home with lots of great ideas for my volunteer position this year. While there, I had a culinary tour de force and ate alot of great food. I also bought several BBQ rubs for Scott to try on ribs. AfterI flew in Lisa and I went cruising Beale Street and ended up at The Pig on Beale: Pork with an Attitude. They had really good ribs. My favorite place was B.B. King’s Blues Club which had the best ribs of all. During dinner, we heard a blues band fronted by a 16-year-old singer and then B.B. King’s All-Stars which were great. Alcenia’s Southern Style Cuisine was the choice for Ginger’s birthday lunch because Cheryl saw it on “Diners, Dives, and Drive-Ins”. I had fried chicken and waffles and lunch was topped off with a kiss on the forehead from the owner. If you click the link you can see the short video from the Food Network. Huey’s was Ginger’s choice for her birthday dinner because she was “sick of eating BBQ”. This was a fun burger joint that had toothpicks stuck all over the ceiling. We ate twice at The Arcade Restaurant, which is the oldest cafe in Memphis and is famous because Elvis ate there before HE was famous. The sweet potato pancakes were scrumptious. Before flying home we had a few hours between the end of the convention and our flight so we headed to the National Civil Rights Museum. It was really well-done and I could have spent a couple more hours there, but then I’m a museum junkie. It was really inspiring to see the motel and think of where Dr. King was assassinated. It was then really creepy to stand in the window where James Earl Ray shot him and see the view right down to the motel balcony. But I’m glad I got to see the museum and also the exhibits detailing the history of civil rights in America.
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I finished this reading challenge 3 months early! The goal of the challenge is to read the number of books first published in a given year that corresponds to the last digit of each year in the 2000s — 10 books from 2010, 9 books from 2009, 8 books from 2008, etc. The total number of books required, therefore, is 55. The challenge lasts from 9/9/09 through 10/10/10.
