Stay-cation

At least, that's what I keep hearing on radio/news/www that we can be taking since gas is so expensive. So, that's kind of what we did this weekend. Wes came across two Atlanta City Passes for a couple of things because one of his classmates wasn't able to use it all. I've used a City Pass in San Francisco when Landis and I were there but I havne't used one here in ATL.

Saturday: Took MARTA down to Midtown and walked around there. I always love walking around in the city because the buildings are just amazing to me...especially at night but we didn't stick around that late.


We ate lunch at the Vortex because they are supposed to have Atlanta's best burgers...they do! After that, we walked up to the High Museum of Art (click here) and had a blast. We've been to the High before but it was free family day and there were about 1,000 kids walking around so this was a little nicer. We didn't even know but there was a MLK exhibit that was incredible. It was a photo-journalism walk through the Civil Rights Act and the Freedom Walk. If you get a chance to visit, I highly recommend it.




Sunday: Of course, we started the day with reChurch. Following that, we headed over to Decatur with Shelly & Josh Woodruff, Abby Griggs and Matt Rich to eat at Brick Store Pub (love that place!) Wes and I were so excited to go to Fernbank because it is a natural history museum. We've been there once for IMAX and we hear that Martini's & IMAX on Friday nights is awesome so we set our expectations high. Too high. It was lamazoid (yes, I made up that word). I think it is more for kids than adults. I felt like I was at a taxidermy or something.




I wanted to see dinosaurs and this is all they had:




When we use to take family vacations as a child, sometimes we would go on "educational vacations" and my Mom would ask us what we learned. Here you go:
-It's remarkable how much different our world is today than just 40-50 years ago. It was somewhat painful to look at the photos of segregation in the very city in which I live just because of the color of skin. I wonder what will be so socially different 40 years from now?
-I can learn more about polar bears and penguins from the Discovery and National Geographic channels and March of the Penguins than a museum.
-T-Rex's did not live in Georgia, it was too swampy for them. They lived on the West Coast. Smaller dinos and flying ones lived 'round these parts.
-It's too hot in Atlanta to be walking around exploring during the last week of July.