Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Friday Atlanta Tour

On Friday we went to tour Atlanta. Government shutdowns are stupid lame guys. I actually was kind of looking forward to walking around all of the MLK stuff. But nooooo. But here's what we did see. 
The walk of fame. 

The ghandi statue outside. (Greg talked about it for a while)

The mural on one of the walls. This is a normal picture because panoramas are surprisingly difficult.

And The house Martin Luther King was born in. We couldn't tour inside though because the government is shut down. It's really inconvenient. 

Luckily, aside from the cool historic stuff, all of the other touristy things in Atlanta were up and running. Something I've learned about myself: I'm an awesome tourist. I love taking pictures of everything, and me next to everything. I must have taken close to 200 pictures on Friday. It was a little ridiculous...

ANYWAY.  After we attempted to learn all about the civil rights movement and were only partially successful, we headed to the park. The one between the Atlanta Aquarium and the Coke Factory (the new one...the old one is by Underground Atlanta and is just kind of empty now.) we didn't tour either of those because we didn't have enough time and both are a little bit pricey for poor Jesus School kids. But we did go inside the World Of Coke (that's the coca cola factory) gift shop and buy bottled Coke. Good stuff. 
This is the World of Coke. 

Nbd. But shared a drink with John Pemberton. I know y'all are jealous. 




Inside the gift shop! Every kind of coke paraphernalia imaginable. From shirts to dishes, purses to shot glasses. And of course lots of coke. One of these weekends I want to go back up to the city and actually take the tour. I heard at the end, you get to try something like 100 different flavors of coke from around the world...crazy! 


Our next destination was across the street at Centennial Olympic Park. This is where the 100th year anniversary of the Olympics was held in 1996. We stopped and had our picnic lunch there. 

Our next stop was the massive CNN headquarters. Home of the largest freestanding escalator in the world. 

The escalator is that white thing that goes into the globe. Also it's not really curved. Did I mention panoramas are difficult?
Overall it was a lot of fun! I would definitely recommend visiting if you ever have the chance! 

Out next destination was underground Atlanta. Which is an original street from civil war era Atlanta, lines with shops and other tourist traps. But the trick is, it's all underground. It's like in a tunnel and the city has been built up and around it. It actually reminded me a lot of an underpass in Singapore. On the way we saw some other touristy sites though:)
Here we are walking down to underground Atlanta!

After that we visitors the capital, all sorts of fun times here. I posted most of these pictures on Facebook, so you all are welcome to check them out! 

Much love,
Ali

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