What y'all have?!?!

What y’all have?!?!

Are y’all having a good time? We are…

We started this morning early enough to be among the first to enter the Georgia Aquarium. The only thing that I really feel like I should say about it is: “Been there, done that”! The place is really no big deal, and although the building looks really nice from the outside, and pride itself for being the largest aquarium in the world, the only positive comment that I have is that I loved they named the little Beluga whale after me (oh well, maybe not, but I appreciated the fact that its name was Nico…

I’m sorry but I just can’t help compare it with “The Atlantis” at Paradise Island in the Bahamas, now, that was an aquarium, with a 1 hour guided tour of the facility.

We decided to make our next stop the Atlanta Zoo. It’s been a very nice day weather wise and we thought it was going to be nice to spend the rest of the morning/afternoon cuddling with the lions and wrestling with the giraffes. Well, little did we know that today being a holiday weekend, the Zoo was totally packed. The entire parking lot was full, and there was a sign telling us to get to an additional lot that was opened not too far away; a little bit like going to Haulover Beach after 12PM, it’s hard to find a spot! Now, I don't know what you would have done, but we mutually agreed the Zoo could have waited, I’m personally NOT a big fan of big crowds anyway, so, after that guess where we decided to go?!?!?

Of course, you got that right, “The Varsity”!!!!

The Varsity is supposed to be the largest Diner/Drive-in in the US; they serve burgers, hot dogs, fries, onion rings, and some other kind of healthy food they’re thinking about proposing to the general public at healthy food stores such as Whole Foods in the near future.

We had an order of two Chili Hot Dogs and a Chili Burger, a side of French Fries, and a big bucket of Sprite to go with it. I was ready to ask for a Pepsi, but as y’all might understand, this is not really the right place to ask for something like that! LOL

The Varsity is an institution, they serve fast food, they’re not particularly kind nor exceptional when it comes to excite my taste buds, but still they manage to be in every Tourist Guide, and let’s admit it, they certainly are an icon of Atlanta, a piece of history! This is what really amazes me, and that’s why we needed to go there and pay tribute to the Goddess Fat!

The afternoon has been very low key, we wanted to go visit the “Jimmy Carter Center & Library”, one of the 10 (?) Presidential Libraries in the US, and so we did! It was quite an experience; I must admit that I really enjoyed it, especially because of this holiday mood these days, with street parades, celebrations, etc.

As for the evening, it looks quite open, who knows, Soul Food anybody? ;-)

The plan for tomorrow is to visit Stone Mountain in the afternoon, hang around there for the evening (maybe hike some of the trails), have dinner at one of the restaurants on the common (It looks nice, and I’ve read good reviews about the food which is always good), watch the laser show they have at night for desperate tourists like us, and then probably just head back to Atlanta to spend the night.

The morning at the present time looks wide open, we might in fact want to try to go back to the Zoo, and if we really get desperate, maybe visit the World Of CocaCola!
From all of us at CNN, have a great evening.
Peace,
Nico