Day 17 - the day we tried 65 flavours of Cola

We got up early again, this time to travel to Atlanta, Georgia. We got two seats again so managed to get some sleep on the 41/2 hour journey. We got the bus to the hotel. We've been so lucky to have such lovely bus drivers- we just tell them where we need to get off and they shout us when we're there :). At the hotel we were told that we'd got a single room, "but don't worry it can fit 2 of you". No! Our faces must have said it all because they immediately upgraded us to our own  suite. It was probably the worst hotel we'd stayed in yet, but then again we'd been so lucky so far, and who can really moan at there own suite for a night? 

We had 2 walk in closets, a bathroom,  a kitchen area, living area and a dining area haha. Next door was a lovely looking cafe  so we headed there for lunch. We both had starters because the mains tend  to be huge especially for lunch. Shrimp cheviche for me and steak and jalepeno nachos for Loz. It was amazing.

Then off to the CNN studios for a backstage tour.

(Apparently that is a Guinness World Record breaking escalator on the right - largest free standing ;)and we obviously went on it, daredevils! ) 

Our tour guide Brianne was a star.

You couldn't take pictures of the actual studios unfortunately. 

After that we walked through Centennial Olympic Park - the Olympics were held in Atlanta in 96. It was a beautiful sunny day  :)

Following that we visited the World of CocaCola. We had booked the tour just to fill time - neither of us actually like coke haha - but it turned out to be quite hilarious. The first tour guide Emilio was fantastic. He danced about throughout his speech and made a big deal of us as we were from England. 

The vault with the secret formula ;)

You could have a photo with the coca cola polar bear but me and Lauren weren't looking our best by that point.

You could taste all the different flavours that CocaCola made around the world. Me and Loz felt a bit queezy after a while. I got a souvenir bottle of coke but we don't have a bottle opener so I had to leave that at the hotel - it was glass too so wouldn't travel well. 

Atlanta was pretty lovely. You can see the CNN building on the right of this picture ( look for the red sign).

We went back to our suite ;) for showers and then we went back to the cafe next door, which now had fairy lights lit up outside round all the trees. We had seen the cocktail menu earlier and knew we wanted grapefruit and rosewater martinis.

We both ordered the shrimp linguine - heaven.

We had a lovely evening with a few more cocktails then off to bed ready for the 9 hour trip to Orlando tomorrow. Lots of love xxxxx