So for some reason on this trip I could not sleep past 7 o'clock not sure why but it does make for a long day. Anyway, after breakfast we headed out to the Georgia Aquarium, the only reason I wanted to go to Atlanta. I decided to that since they have a pretty good public transport system why not take that and save on parking and driving in crazy traffic. After having used the DC metro system for the past 4 and a half years, the Marta system much is nicer and smoother ride, no sudden stopping, no sitting and waiting in tunnels for trains to leave the station. Of course my view might be a little skewed since we only rode on one line and only a few stops. We arrived at the aquarium just in time for a few school groups to enter in with us and I am not a fan of kids to begin with. At the aquarium the first thing we stopped at was a touch pool, where I got to touch sting rays and a small bonnethead shark with "two-fingers" only. As we made our way around the exhibits I realized it's not the little kids that were the most annoying but the screeching tweens and teenagers. My favorite exhibit of the whole place was the worlds largest tank which holds 4 whale sharks, Yushan, Tarokor, Alice and Trixie. Also 4 manta rays, Nandi, Tallulah, Billi and I can't remember the fourth one. It's very peaceful just sitting there watching them all swimming by. They also had touch tanks where you could touch again with only two fingers, horseshoe crabs and if you were quick and did not hesitate shrimp. I think we spent probably three hours there and I could have spent more, but it was time to get our dose of Gone With the Wind, since we were in Atlanta. After a quick walk through Centennial Olympic Park we got back on the train and headed to the Margaret Mitchell house where we had a short tour of the apartment where she lived with her second husband and wrote most of the book. They also had a small exhibit set up in the building next door dedicated to the movie.
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| World of Coca-cola |
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| Centennial Olympic Park |
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| Margaret Mitchell House |
After the Margaret Mitchell house we headed back to the hotel to rest for a while before going to dinner at the American Shakespeare Tavern to see A Midsummer's Night Dream. The food was pretty good and the play was wonderful. Of course our adventure to the Tavern made for an interesting trip there, took 40 minutes to go 4 blocks, see April's blog for her take on that hurricane like adventure.
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