LOL, Been there...
My 2 youngest girls played club soccer from
age 8 through high school, so we spent most of the year going to
tournaments from Colorado to Carolinas and Chicago to Florida...
We
went to Memphis twice a year, and we pretty well ate at every
restaurant in the Beale St. area, the most memorable experience was BB
Kings fruit fly infested restaurant...I couldn't believe it was open the
flies were so bad...great BBQ but Kansas City is right there with them,
w/ 2 kids playing we were in the KC suburb Overland Park so many times a
year everyone called me for directions to everything I knew that town so well...lol
The problem was halfway way to and from Memphis you go through Sikeston MO., home of the "Throwd Roll" , Lamberts Restaurant....best
homestyle cooking in the Midwest and "ALL you can eat", the folks come
from as far as Alabama to wait 1-4 hrs to eat...you are so full when
you get to Memphis your not hungry for at least a day, and your not sure
you have the will power not to stop again on the way home so you want
to save room in the old stomach in case your overwhelmed by the
temptation...
Last time we went to Fla. one of them played in
Westin(outside of Miami) for 3 days, and the other played in Orlando the
following day, also a 3 day tournament, all on their Christmas break
from school...we ate every meal at the hotels or fast food, took all of
us a month to recover from that one.
MY d@mn kids are the reason I
had to change my username from "slimdan" to "fatdan", lost 25 lbs now
that they are off to college...