Early morning walk-up to Elvis grave in the Meditation Garden at Graceland.

This is the early morning 1 hour free entry to Graceland grounds to walk to the Meditation Garden to visit the grave of Elvis and his family.
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So we've come to Graceland this morning and we're not actually going to do the house this morning. We're going to go into the exhibits across the road to see what's new but we've done the house five, six times in all now and obviously not much changes in the house itself.
But we're taking the opportunity of the free walk up between 7.30 and 8.30 every morning. You can walk up to the grave site free of charge and so we're taking advantage of that this morning and then we'll go across to the 'Welcome To Graceland' exhibit when that opens at 10, I think that opens.
'For security purposes Vernon Presley with special permission from the city had the grave sites of Elvis and his mother Gladys moved from Forest Hill Cemetery to Graceland in October of 1977. Since then the garden has become the final resting place for Elvis's father Vernon, paternal grandmother Minnie Mae and Grandson Ben. A small marker has also been placed in memory of Elvis's stillborn twin brother.
The large marble cross was Gladys Presley's original monument at Forest Hill and the headstone which features the Star of David to represent Gladys's Jewish Heritage was placed under grave in December 1964. The statue of Jesus without outstretched arms was a gift to Elvis from his friends one Christmas. The Meditation Garden was designed and built by Bernard Grenadier at Elvis's request in the mid-1960s. Iit features Italian statues, an elaborate fountain and special lighting. The brick wall behind the Grecian inspired columns is inlaid with primitive stained glass handmade in Spain in the mid-1800s. The garden offered Elvis a private, serene area for meditation, reflection and quiet contemplation. It was one of his favorite places.'
The Raquetball Court just there. It's been, within the last few years. it was repurposed as the Raquetball Court. For many years it was a display of gold discs, platinum and gold and silver discs from around the world there but they're over in the Welcome To Graceland exhibits now. And that's gone back to being the Raquetball Court as it was when Elvis played there the last night he was alive. Okay, we're going to hang around now and then go and park across the road. So it's something we haven't done - park across there - because we've always stayed at either the Heartbreak Hotel and then the Guesthouse at Graceland.
There's the Welcome to Graceland across the road, you can just see one of the signs of the Elvis 68 special.
So we'll be heading across there shortly 10 o'clock it's open today. I think we paid....
I think we paid 48 dollars just to do all the exhibits over there, the Welcome to Graceland exhibits and the planes. You can just see the Lisa Marie across the road there, so we'll go in there.
We've done it all before but it's nice to come back and do it again and see what's new over the other side. But it's well worth, especially if you're not going to tour the house or you've done it before and going to skip it on your next trip, it's just worth remembering you've do have an hour, 7.30 to 8.30 every morning, for a free walk up to the Meditation Garden.