World of Coca-Cola

 We had heard the World of Coca-Cola was awesome, so we made sure that we stopped there when Mark was here visiting us.  

 McKay's "must" was to see the Coca-Cola bear.  It's a good thing he's cute because none of the other boys cared and the line was LONG.  When we got us to the front the bear was so cute with him pretending to eat his doggy.  I don't know that McKay thought it was that funny though...

 The entire placed was decorated with Coca-Cola paraphernalia from every decade and country.  It was so interesting to see it all in once place.

 It was also decorated with the Coca-Cola bottles that different countries contributed to the 1996 Olympics. 

 We especially loved this case that showed how there was a Coca-Cola bottle made completely out of baseball equipment at the Braves field and some of the originals were there to see.

 We are always good for a 3-D movie and this one was so fun.  The seats moved and even poked you in the back!

 This was a game the boys got to play while waiting to see "the vault".  They had to find different clues and their forms showed up on the screen as light silhouettes.  

 The "vault" where the official recipe for Coke resides.  For some reason the boys thought that they were going to get to see the recipe.  Little disappointed.

This was definitely the best part, the tasting room.  There were stations from different continents and you could taste different sodas from countries there.  Our favorites were Africa and Asia and our least favorite was Europe.

Italy had a soda called Beverly that should NOT be happening.  We all about gagged on it and had to rinse our mouths out.  It was disgusting.  I guess that shows how we all have different taste buds.

 We truly did drink soda to our hearts content and left extremely full.

 When we left everyone got a glass bottle of Coke.  As we aren't Coke drinkers (although huge fans of Fanta), the boys all dumped theirs out and are using the bottles for dimes.  

 It really was such a fascinating day at World of Coca-Cola.

After our Coca-Cola experience, we headed to Mary Mac's Tea Room for some authentic southern food.  Mark and I were determined to experience the whole things so we ordered fried green tomatoes, fried Okra, Tomato Pie and Banana Pudding.  Everything there was so delicious!  We especially loved the fried green tomatoes.  The boys were a little less adventures, although Palmer got dumplings which he ended up loving.  It was such a fun day in Atlanta!