Family Day - Downtown

On Saturday we spent the whole day downtown as a family.  It was Downtown Museum Day in Memphis!

We started out the morning with some coffee at Starbucks.

Our first stop was a visit to Sun Studio.  We loved learning the history behind Memphis music, and seeing the recording studio and instruments.  It was a very entertaining tour.  We also bought the kids a moon pie to try because they had never had one!

Next we had lunch at Flying Fish (one of our family favorites)!

Our next stop was The Cotton Museum. It was a small museum and it didn't take us long to go through, but it provided a good look into the history of cotton in this region.

We had some frozen yogurt at Dream Berry for an afternoon snack and watched the trolleys go by.

Our last stop was the Metal Museum.  It was a really cool museum set on a beautiful grounds that overlook the river.  They have a lot of metal garden art pieces that we loved looking at.  We also got to watch two blacksmith demonstrations.  The second blacksmith gave Margaret the hook that he was making.  She was so proud of it and carried it around the rest of the afternoon.

We had such a fun family day!  The kids came away saying that Sun Studio and the Metal Museum were their favorite parts of the day.