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Planning all girl Memphis vacations is a great way to break from the monotony of daily routines and to reenergize while enjoying the company of your close friends, the city is a place where you and your friends can come back from refreshed and full of wonderful memories of the time you spent there. Thursday is the most recommended day to start your all girl getaways because of the many parties that happen on this day; one is at the rooftop of the historic Peabody Hotel where all ladies are admitted for free to listen to live music, have cocktails, dance, and enjoy the views of the Mississippi River and the bustling city below. If you and your friends are more of the outdoorsy types, head over to the Mud Island River Park where you can ride bicycles, go rent canoes or kayaks, or ride the monorail to view the park, the Mississippi River, and downtown Memphis. Shopping is considered one of the major female bonding activities and Memphis will not disappoint with its many malls, unique shops, bookstores, antique stores, and flea markets. Your getaway will be incomplete without a tour of Graceland to look into the private and home life of Elvis Presley and see the garden that is his final resting place.
Plan your Memphis Vacations in 2010
Those wanting to make the most out of their trips, here is a list of events planned for this year 2010 to help you plan your Memphis vacations. The annual Memphis Italian Festival will happen on June 4 and 5; it is a family centered celebration of Italian-American traditions featuring good food, live entertainment, and arts and crafts shows whose proceeds will go to the Holy Rosary Parish School. It is Elvis Week from August 10 to 16 and the whole city will be celebrating everything that is Elvis Presley; expect more than the usual Elvis look-a-likes all over town, tours of the Graceland Mansion and his Automobile Museum, fun runs, singing contests, and a candlelight vigil on the eve of his death anniversary. From September 4 to 5, the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival will be celebrated on Main Street featuring numerous artists performing jazz, blues, gospel, and other music genres. The Pink Palace Crafts Fair will be on October 7 to 10 at the Audobon Park where there will be lots of food, live entertainment, and arts and crafts put on display and sale, proceeds of which will go to the Memphis Museum System.
Memphis Vacation Deals
Special packages and deals that hotels and travel agencies offer interested travelers have made Memphis vacations easier and more hassle free since activities are already planned and set. The Peabody Hotel offers several packages designed for couples and family travelers; the Ducky Day Family Package is one where you get to be an honorary duck master for a day, helping the ducks during their daily march to the lobby fountain at 11am or back to their rooftop duck palace at 5pm. This comes with your own brass-head duck master cane to use and as a memento, you will be given a Peabody Duckmaster Celebriduck rubber ducky. There are also vacation packages from the Madison Hotel; a very good one is the Cultural and History Package because it is fun and educational at the same time. For two nights, you get to stay in a luxurious one-bedroom suite and your days will be full of activities and tours. On the first day, there will be tours to Graceland and Sun Studios while on the second, tours will focus on the civil rights movement and will feature Beale Street, the neighborhood of Soulsville USA, and the Mason Temple where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous Mountaintop speech.
Memphis Vacations for the Family
Family holidays are important in bringing its members closer through quality time spent together while on a break from school and work and Memphis vacations offer families fun, adventure and educational trips that everyone can enjoy and take part in. One of the best places for kids to get some hands on experience is in the Childrens Museum of Memphis, parents can let their young ones run around and explore to their hearts content without having to tell them not to touch the displays since anything not enclosed in glass is fair game. Kids can get to be whoever they want to be in the museum, they can be storeowners in the kids market section and work the cash register or grab a grocery cart and do some healthy food shopping, they can get to be construction workers or architects building a house in the Your House, My House exhibit. The Memphis Zoo is another great family destination; it is home to more than 3,500 animals and it is divided into three zones containing numerous exhibits each. The vast seventy acres of zoo property give both adults and kids lots of information and a chance to get close to live animals they may have never seen before.
