Island Queen Sightseeing Tour

I went on a riverboat sightseeing tour for the first time in a very long time today at the urging of a couple of friends. The last time I did this was in 7th or 8th grade on a field trip and I haven't set foot on a riverboat since, which has been my loss. The Island Queen, operated by Memphis Riverboats, offers daily 90 minute sightseeing tours. The perfect weather and the interesting commentary given by Jimmy Ogle (he's become quite the recurring character on the blog lately) made this a really great outing. I live just beside the river yet never get on it, so it was really cool to see the city, the bridges and the shoreline while on a relaxing riverboat ride. Some riverboat fairy sent me up to the Captain's deck where I chatted with him a long while about all sorts of riparian* entertainments. Get more information about tours and cruises at: http://www.memphisriverboats.net/

* I've been waiting a long time to slip that word into a sentence! Sometime soon I'll be writing about the Memphis Queen II, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the painstaking restoration this it is currently undergoing.