HotLanta

With our time in Florida up, we had time for a last trip to the beach, albeit under heavy cloud, but we knew it would be our last opportunity for a while so we made the most of it.
Our drive to Atlanta was a bit of a shambles and the first time we had gotten lost on this entire trip. We ended up driving this ring road all the way around one town for an hour and then later on did a little hour’s back and forth drive which pleased me immensely. We did eventually get to Debi’s house and settled in for a good night’s rest because we had to get up at sparrows fart to fetch Omar at the airport.

What a day we had. Airport at 7AM and fetch Omar – check; breakfast at Johnny Rockets – check; afternoon at Georgia Aquarium; tour of CNN Center; Hawks against Sixers in the evening.

You know you are going to have fun when you spend a day with Omar, we just seem to trade BSing all day long. The aquarium was amazing; well I should hope so – being the biggest one in the world. There is so much to see, but we seem to hit a snag at the Beluga whale tank when we couldn’t remove Celia from the massive clear glass panel. I must admit it was pretty amazing to see these mammals so close up and the day just got better as we saw the whale sharks, leopard sharks, rays and various other types of marine fish big and small. I loved seeing all the reef fish again, reminding me of our diving experiences in Thailand.

We went from there to the CNN center, which is actually the headquarters for the US and A. It was pretty fascinating seeing where some of the worlds breaking news is broadcast from. They explained to us how they do the weather these days and how they did it in the past with the green screen.

Now that were we completely bushed, we still had to go pick up Debi before the game, unfortunately the sudden rain storm delayed the entire pick up and we missed the first quarter. The game was pretty amazing though and the Sixers scraped through away from home by a few points, everything gone to plan. We were fortunate enough to get some great seats a few rows back in the final quarter as many of the patrons had left once their team was behind.

We ended a crazy day off at the ‘Waffle House’ with some grits and stayed a couple hours with Omar at the airport as he was catching a 5:30AM flight home. What a great day!!