In Atlanta we stayed with our friend Fred, who also took a day off from work to hang out with us and play tourist. Our first stop was the Georgia Aquarium, which is pretty epic. There was a great shark and ray touch tank. I actually got Fred and Andrew to touch a ray too!
Japanese spider crabs, which are roughly the size of a car tire and albino alligators.
Beluga whales playing with ropes and bags and swimming right up to the glass, and an active octopus who walked across the tank right as we got there.
There was a tunnel as part of the penguin viewing that you could crawl through and see the penguins even closer by sticking your head up through cylinders of plexiglass.
More frog and jellyfish exhibits.
A dolphin show that wasn't educational like the one in Baltimore. This one was a musical, where the stargazer (or something like that) was fighting an evil sea monster and the dolphins were helping... Storyline may not have been award winning, but the acrobatics they had the dolphins do or did with the dolphins (surfing or balancing on them on one foot) was really impressive. Unfortunately no photos during the show.
And the grand finale is the whale shark tank, which also included large manta rays (one of which did backflips in front of us) and several species of large fish and sharks. You first go through a tube where all of the creatures in the tanks can swim over and past you before going to the floor to ceiling viewing wall that's probaby 60 feet wide and made out of 18 inch thick acrylic.
After that we went to The World of Coca-Cola! Atlanta is the home of Coca-Cola and they have an interactive attraction right next to the aquarium that's part museum, part activities and all advertising. I'd actually recommend it for anyone interested in marketing.
This is "the vault" that holds the secret formula (doubt it, but it was right after a cool room with a 360 degree screen).
This screen followed the images of the 5 people in front and they had tasks to complete before we could get to the next room. These sensors recognized where they were and the actions they were trying to make.
There was also a ton of memorabilia throughout the whole thing including this device, which is how it was orginally served, some travel advertising for Andrew, and this vending machine which is from the Olympics in Japan.
They've been an official sponsor of the Olympics for many years and had a wall displaying several Olympic torches.
It ends with the tasting room, which has products from around the world. It was fun trying a pinapple-coconut fizzy drink from South America (I think) and a terrible one from Europe. Andrew even had me try something similar to the Pepsi Challenge, using regular Coke and Coke Zero. While it was difficult, I still knew which one was which. Nothing beats the genuine taste of Coca-Cola.
Japanese spider crabs, which are roughly the size of a car tire and albino alligators.
Beluga whales playing with ropes and bags and swimming right up to the glass, and an active octopus who walked across the tank right as we got there.
There was a tunnel as part of the penguin viewing that you could crawl through and see the penguins even closer by sticking your head up through cylinders of plexiglass.
More frog and jellyfish exhibits.
A dolphin show that wasn't educational like the one in Baltimore. This one was a musical, where the stargazer (or something like that) was fighting an evil sea monster and the dolphins were helping... Storyline may not have been award winning, but the acrobatics they had the dolphins do or did with the dolphins (surfing or balancing on them on one foot) was really impressive. Unfortunately no photos during the show.
And the grand finale is the whale shark tank, which also included large manta rays (one of which did backflips in front of us) and several species of large fish and sharks. You first go through a tube where all of the creatures in the tanks can swim over and past you before going to the floor to ceiling viewing wall that's probaby 60 feet wide and made out of 18 inch thick acrylic.
After that we went to The World of Coca-Cola! Atlanta is the home of Coca-Cola and they have an interactive attraction right next to the aquarium that's part museum, part activities and all advertising. I'd actually recommend it for anyone interested in marketing.
This is "the vault" that holds the secret formula (doubt it, but it was right after a cool room with a 360 degree screen).
This screen followed the images of the 5 people in front and they had tasks to complete before we could get to the next room. These sensors recognized where they were and the actions they were trying to make.
There was also a ton of memorabilia throughout the whole thing including this device, which is how it was orginally served, some travel advertising for Andrew, and this vending machine which is from the Olympics in Japan.
They've been an official sponsor of the Olympics for many years and had a wall displaying several Olympic torches.
It ends with the tasting room, which has products from around the world. It was fun trying a pinapple-coconut fizzy drink from South America (I think) and a terrible one from Europe. Andrew even had me try something similar to the Pepsi Challenge, using regular Coke and Coke Zero. While it was difficult, I still knew which one was which. Nothing beats the genuine taste of Coca-Cola.
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