Iceburg, Right Ahead!!

This past weekend we took the boys down to Atlata to the Georgia Aquarium. Ever since Ryan watched the movie "Titanic" this summer, he has become obsessed with this ship. He cannot get enough information about it, and so we headed there to see the special Titanic Exhibit that is there for several months. It was a really cool exhibit, with all of the artifacts that have been recovered. They also had mock ups of what certain rooms on the ship would have looked like, and an iceburg to touch to see how cold it was, and a simulator to see if you could avoid the iceburg. We all experienced disaster on that one, there would not have been a happier ending to the story if any of us had been at the wheel. As you entered the exhibit hall you were assigned an "identity" of a actual Titanic passanger and given a card with some information about that person, and at the end they had a list of everyone who survived and those who did not, and you got to see whether you survived. All of us except Ryan made it out alive, which royally pissed him off. He made a big announcement that there was no way that his Dad, who was a THIRD CLASS passanger, would have lived if he did not! And that was that!

This was a really cool aquarium as well. The boys are ususally not that big on aquariums, but this one had whales and sharks, and the like. And you stood in glass tunnels while they swam around you. The penguins were "on vacation" whatever that means, and that was a bit of a disappointment, as we always enjoy them. The touch tank with the stingrays and sharks was really neat too.

We also went to the World of Coca-Cola while we were in Atlanta, which was interesting. It gives you the history of Coke, and there was a cool 4-D movie, but to Sam, nothing beat the Tasting Room. He tasted every one of the 60 different kind of Coke products, which was his goal for the day. They even had a special holiday Coke, which was Coke, chocolate and peppermint flaver. It was interesting. My little adventurer Ryan stuck to the section of just the plain everyday Coke flavors.