The World of News and Coca Cola

In sharp contrast to our days spent touring historical sights we spent a day immersed in up to the minute news and pop culture.  First up was a tour of CNN.  Initially the the kids had no desire to tour the network, but later exclaimed it was the favorite part of their day. 

The tour starts with a trip up this seven story escalator into the "world."  In the screening room at the top we saw our first glimpses of the destruction in Japan.  It was incredible to see the news from overseas "breaking" right in front of us.

 Across Centennial Park from CNN is the World of Coca Cola.  It is an extreme glimpse into pop culture of the past hundred years.  My picture did not come out, but I loved a sign from the 40s boasting of the new "family size" 16oz coca cola bottle with "three servings" to share.  

 Coca-Cola really is everywhere- even in space.

At least she was honest.  By the end of the day I think Andy had persuaded her to try to Coke.

 It was an exhausting day touring a entire world.

Nothing that a trip to the all you can drink tasting room can't cure.

We were camping at Stone Mountain campground so the next morning we took a gondola ride to the top.

The sun was out so we decided to ditch the gondola ride and hike down the mountain.

Andy of course had his own idea for how to get down.

Stone Mountain is a family amusement park (mostly closed for the winter) that is known for it's carving of three leaders of the confederacy- Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.  It is hard to tell from this photo but Davis' horse is the size of two school buses.