We decided to end Spring Break week with a bang and spent the weekend in Atlanta. We booked the hotel and Georgia Aquarium tickets well in advance and were ready to go Friday after work.
We'd planned the hotel with an indoor pool so the boys could have some playtime on either side of the daily activities we planned. However, when we arrived at the hotel Friday night the pool was in a courtyard only, not covered and not heated. BRRRR We quickly jumped on hotels.com and customer care to get out of this hotel and into one with an actual indoor pool.
It was almost 11pm when we finally made it to the new hotel and got the boys into bed. We'd found a suite so Daddies could crack open a bottle of wine while the boys crashed in front of some cartoons.
Saturday morning after breakfast the boys and I jumped into the pool. We didn't have to be anywhere until after lunch so it was a very laid back morning of swimming and cartoons. We had lunch at the world-famous The Varsity restaurant and ate at the old school house seats staring at the TV. You can guess who was in charge of seat selection...
From there it was off to the aquarium, what a freaking madhouse!!! We had 1:00 tickets and stood in line from about 12:45 until 1:15 just to get inside. Once we were inside we forgot all about that of course because the place in amazing!
The ocean exhibit was breath taking, as you can tell from Joey's face above. Sitting at the large "window" at the end of the exhibit and watching the creatures was simply peaceful and exhilarating.
After almost 4 hours we'd all had enough and headed back to the hotel for some rest/cartoons. We'd scoped out a local pizza joint for dinner and were not disappointed. Johnny's New York Style Pizza served pizza by the slice so the boys were able to get their sausage and cheese pizza and Daddies got the Greek pizza. YUMMY!!!
Back at the hotel we had more excitement... the city had blown a water main so we had zero water pressure. That means no showers, no toilets, no running water of any kind. We melted some ice in the microwave and coffee pot to brush teeth. It didn't seem to affect the boys' ability to watch cartoons and sleep with their new stuffed animals from the aquarium however 
Sunday morning was a repeat of Saturday morning; breakfast, pool, etc. We met a friend at Legal Sea Foods for lunch, let the boys run free in the Centennial Olympic Park, and then wrapped up our weekend at the World of Coke museum.
I think everyone's favorite was the 4-D movie, complete with splashes of water and a seat that poked us in the back. The tasting room was much anticipated but after tasting maybe half of the 70ish flavors, ones tummy starts to complain. We headed for the door, picking up our souvenir bottle bottled on site and hit the road.
Both boys were asleep before we were out of Atlanta and didn't wake up, even for a rest stop, until we hit Birmingham.
