tupelo day

every year, the 4th grade concludes their study of mississippi history with tupelo day.  they split up and hit all the hot spots around town for pictures to go in their mississippi scrapbook while one of the moms in the car reads about whatever it is that we are about to see.  it's a really fun way to do a field trip.  this year, the only people that we had in our car was wes and sam.


we started at the school...

 and headed over to the tupelo automobile museum...

then, we hit up the birthplace of elvis...

johnnie's drive in...

city hall...

the records at city hall were pretty neat.  the very first minutes ever were handwritten in those gigantic books!

after a crazy turn of events, we ended up at tupelo water and light.  this was not on the suggested or required list of places to visit, but it turned out to be the highlight.  we got a backstage tour of the warehouse with the mayor and johnny timmons (mr. tupelo water and light).  we saw where we keep all the street signs and traffic lights.

they visited the transformer yard and got a lesson on aquifers.

they got to ride in the bucket with their buddy's (chase) dad.

and they MADE us stay for lunch!!  :)  they were having a retirement party, and they had their competition BBQ team cooking burgers and banana pudding.  we stayed!!  it was great!  and we got a picture with the mayor, jason shelton.

we headed over to the tupelo CVB from there.  it's a really neat place.  if you ever visit tupelo, give it a few minutes of your time!

 tupelo hardware (where elvis bought his first guitar)...

the courthouse...

the lyric...

 reed's...

the gumtree bookstore...

crosstown...

tupelo battlefield...

natchez trace...

the 13 unknown civil war soldier graves along the trace...

and baskin robbins to top it off...

 tupelo day was a success!  this is my kind of field trip!!