First day in Atlanta, Georgia

When we reached Atlanta in the morning, we went searching for breakfast. It was tough finding as it was a Gd Friday, a public holiday. The other thing is that it as early in the morning. So, most places were closed. So, in the end, we went to McDonalds for breakfast. I ate this chicken biscuit and hashbrowns, while CT had big breakfast. Biscuit, in US means something like corn bread/bun.

After breakfast, we walked to our accomodation- Atlanta Downtown Travelodge to see if we could check-in. Our place is next to Hilton and Marriot. A clean small place. Good enough. Thankfully, we could and when I entered my room, I straight away went for a 15 mins power nap. After that, we met downstairs and went to downtown to the CNN centre. We took the marta train. The weather was sunny and hot. We took the CNN tour, which brought us showing the CNN studio and office. Explained how news are being broadcast. During the tour, we were fortunate to have seen CNN live as the newscasters were in the studio on air..and showing on CNN at the same time. So it was rather cool to have seen how everything goes on in the set and how the newscaster seem so good looking on the set.

After the tour, we had lunch at CNN building. Had chicken teriyaki rice at Japanese store. Very yummy. Costs about US$5. Meals outside costs about this much. So, I kind of gotten used to it. Miss cheap and good food in Singapore. After eating, we went to the Olympic Centennial Park (Atlanta hosted the Olympics in 1996) just 7 mins walk away from CNN. The Park is not too bad...just dropped by to take a couple of shots.

After that, took the train to Capitol State Building to take pictures. The building looks really nice. Then, we walked to the World of Coca Cola, just 5 mins away. Met the 1st batch queuing up there. The Coca Cola Headquarters is awesome. It talked about the history of Coca Cola, how it all started and how it developed. What I like about the place is that at the end of it, there were 2 big rooms which allowed us to taste the drinks. The 1st room was drinks like, Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta, Root Beer, Blue ice mountain drink, Rasberry drink etc.. All sorts of Soft Drinks. The second room was drinks from all over the world. So there was watermelon, passionfruit, lychee, orange, apple, strawberry, apricot etc...from countries like Japan, China, Papua New Guinea, etc.. All Soft drinks. Very cool as we kept tasting. It was free flow. Never burped so much or drank so much soft drinks in my life!

After that, we went "Underground" and took at look at the shops. Lots of stalls. Then, took train to Peachtree Centre near our hotel and walked around a bit. Then, took away pizza for dinner back to our hotel. What a day!