The Varsity!

No trip to Atlanta would be complete with out a trip to the Varsity.  They recently celebrated their 80th anniversary.

It's just a bunch of greasy food, but it's an Atlanta classic.  I had a chili cheeseburger and a peach pie.

The Varsity's catch phrase is "what'll ya have!".  Basically when you walk in the door, there is a mile long counter with tons of cash registers.  The workers just yell "what'll ya have!" at you until you read the menu and make up your mind.  Jonathan kept telling me that I would make a great Varsity employee because I'm cranky and yell alot.  Hardy, har, har.

Olympic Fever

It was kind-of cool to be in Atlanta, home of the 1996 Olympics during the 2008 Olympics.  Even though there was nothing special going on, we did walk thru Centennial Olympic Park on our way from Coke over to the CNN building.

I think this is there that Richard Jewel guy got arrested for the bombing ... maybe ...

More Coke!

I can't say enough about the World of Coke.  We had so much fun drinking all the crazy flavors.  If you are in Atlanta, I highly recommend it!  

Thank you John Pemberton for inventing Coke!

Always Coca-Cola!

My family took a vacation to Atlanta when I was younger.  I remember touring the Coke plant and drinking  all the different (and weird!) Cokes at the end of the tour.  So I knew Jonathan and I had to do the Coke tour.

They opened a new tour building in 2007.  It was really nice.  We stayed there for over 3 hours!  And it was all self guided.

Always a sucker for a character photo op - we got to met the Coke bear.  Notice he has an Olympic scarf on.

I guess this red couch is from American Idol (a show I do not watch).  And I got to "run" with the Olympic torch!

Braves vs. Cubs

Photos from the Braves vs. Cubs game:

Fight, fight, fight!  Actually, no punches were thrown.  The Cubs pitcher hit a Braves hitter, and the hitter want nuts!  I mean, nobody had been brushed back earlier or anything, so it was clearly an accident.  What a weinie.

We saw a ton of hits by both team.  Mark Kotsay, for the Braves, actually hit for the cycle!  You don't see that every day.  (Hitting for the cy

cle means you get a single, double, triple and a home run - although they don't have to be in that order).

Chip Caray (grandson of Cubs legendary broadcaster Harry Caray) is the Braves radio voice.  We got his autograph before the game!

"Tooner" Field

After a 7 hour drive from Orlando to Atlanta, we dropped off our luggage (at a sexy Red Roof Inn) and headed to Turner Field.  Neither of us have been there before.

Side note - most of our vacations revolve around a baseball game.

Braves vs. Cubs!!!  I was a little scared to wear my Cubs t-shirt.  I didn't want the Braves fans to give me a hard time.  I've been to football games where Bears fans have spit and thrown stuff at people wearing the wrong shirt.  But there were more Cubs fans at the game than Braves fans.

Since Turner (as in Ted Turner) used to own the Braves, they had a HUGE cartoon playland called "Tooner" Field.  Jonathan (who just turned 30) really likes the TV show Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends.  And there was a life size replica of the Fosters

 Home!

The blue guy with the Braves hat is "Bloo".  The tall guy with 1 arm is named "Wilt" (as in Wilt Chamberlin - this imaginary friend likes basketball).

Cute, cute, cute!

Road Trip!

Welcome to Georgia!

For Jonathan's 30th birthday, we wanted to take a trip.  He wanted to go to NYC, but that turned out to be pretty pricey.  So we settled on Atlanta.  We planned to go to a couple Braves games, tour the Braves stadium, and do all the touristy stuff.

I haven't been on a road trip in about 7 years.  Peachy!