Atlanta, Georgia - Peachy keen!

For Labor Day weekend we wanted to get out of town and do something fun. Living on the East Coast, I wanted to venture beyond Fayetteville. After some thought and many different ideas of how to spend our 3 days off from work and school... we came up with a trip full of activities to do in and around the city of Atlanta, Georgia.

First we went to the Georgia Aquarium:

Then we went to the World of Coca-Cola:



On Sunday we played all day at Six Flags Over Georgia:




We rounded off the evening at the park playing in their water slide area. It was a lot of fun and much needed cooling off as the temperature was hot and steamy. On Monday we took a trip back to downtown Atlanta and visited the Ritz Carlton hotel (all I can say is WOW) and then we had a snack at the Hard Rock Cafe and visited the original streets of downtown Atlanta in a place now known as the Underground (they've turned it into a shopping area but you are under the streets of downtown and walking on the original brick streets from over 100 years ago!


After our dawdling in the city we headed over to Stone Mountain for a trip back in time... back to the days of country life. We made wax candles, watched a demo on blacksmithing and glassblowing and munched on some old tyme candy. Here's a pic of the etching in the side of the STONE mountain - picture is of General Lee and companions - known as the Mt Rushmore of the South: