Vacation.....Atlanta!

I was going to post one day at time of our vacation, but then realized that day two was mostly a travel day.  Not too exciting to post one day about that!  We spent a day at the Georgia Aquarium - very cool place!  If you have never been - I highly recommend it.  They had some pretty neat exhibits, a dolphin show and a 4-D movie!  Here are some pictures of our time spent there:


The boys are part of the river exhibit!

 

Wearing our 3-D glasses waiting for our turn to watch the movie!



 
 
One of the huge exhibits with very large fish!
 
 
 
 
 

 
They had one of those underwater tunnels with the walking sidewalk.
 
 
While we were in Atlanta we spent some time at Coca-Cola.  This was a pretty fun place as well and it was right next door to the Georgia Aquarium.  You enter together as a group into a room with a bunch of Coca-Cola memorabilia.  After a "tour guide" explains a few things you go into a theatre and watch a little movie.  Then you are released to go throughout the museum to see and do what you like.  We saw the vault with the secret recipe, another 4-D movie, history of Coca-cola, a mini make up of how it is made and put into bottles, (there were other rooms/exhibits I just can't seem to remember them right now) and of course the taste testing room!!  That was a lot of fun - the kids enjoyed that part.  They had stations from other countries and the products they serve there.  Then there was a touch screen where you could pick from a 100 different Coca-Cola products - I never knew they had so many flavors!  When you leave they give you a souvenir 8 oz bottle of Coca-Cola!  Here are a few pictures of our time there:
 

 
The boys and the famous Coca-Cola polar bear!
 
 
 
 

 
One of the characters from the movie we watched.  I think she liked Jon a little more than me!
 
 
I took some more pictures - but this post is getting long enough - I share some other ones of other things we did.  We also spent some time at a children's museum.  Our last day in Atlanta we went to an Atlanta Falcons football game!!  We were super excited to go (this was the boys first NFL game), unfortunately Charlie got the flu that day.  What do you do when you've already bought the tickets?  You make your poor sick go to the game!  I felt terrible.  I offered to sit with him in the car, but he didn't want to - he was determined to go to the game.  Poor kid.  Jon even went to the concession stand offering to pay for a bucket with no popcorn just so we would have something for him (they wouldn't do it either).  Even though we had a sick kid, the Falcons lost - we still enjoyed our time at the game.  Here a few pictures of our time at the game:
 

 
 
Got our tickets and waiting to go inside!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Coin toss!
 
 
 
Falcons vs. Buccaneers final score :(
 
After the game was over we headed to Orlando.  Let's just say it was a very long night.  We arrived at our condo around 1:30 am.  I'll share the rest of our vacation on another post or two or three or......!  
 

 

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