The day actually began with another trip to IKEA to purchase some things that Magan and I had to talk over. But then we were on our way downtown to the World of Coca-Cola museum. On this day they had lots of outdoor activities in the green area between the coke museum and the Aquarium. Sam and Davis played here while I went to purchase the tickets.
After a quick lunch in this outside area, we made our way inside the museum. The museum begins with a cute movie about what goes on inside the coca cola machines when a quarter is inserted. It is a funny little movie, and the kids really liked it. We then came out and toured the actual mini-cola plant and bottling company that makes the colas for the museum. And we each got to get one later that was made at this plant. I am drinking one right now as I write this blog…and it is sooo good.
Next on our tour was visiting a massive amount of coca cola memorabilia that was also in the old coke museum elsewhere in Atlanta. Then we got to meet the cola Polar Bear. He was really neat. He stood about 7 feet tall and his eyes blinked and…anyway it was a pretty neat character, and all the kids loved getting to give him a high five. Belle wanted to pet his nose.
Up the elevator we went to our next stop…the Motion 4D adventure of the Magic behind coca cola. We found out very quickly that seats that move up and down quickly, loud noises, and water being sprayed on you was not what Miss Belle wanted. So Magan got up and stood by the exit door as we continued to watch. Then some dragonflies appeared on screen and as they flew into the audience in 3D, some motion within the seat was activated and it felt like they flew past your side…but to Davis this motion was a little higher and felt like the dragonfly had just bitten his ear. He went crazy…screaming and crying while magan took them both out. Sam had enough himself, but pushed himself to make it to the end.
Two more memorabilia areas walked us through the bad decision of going to NEW COKE in the 80s, which lasted only 79 days before they re-released the classic coca cola. Then we got to see all of the Max Headroom stuff, and then Magan got to sit on the American Idol couch.
We then visited the signature area of this museum…the taste testing area. Where you can taste colas from all over the world, and all of the different types of coke in our country. It is always fun, but there were so many people that we did not stay long. Sam and Davis loved the watermelon colas, grape colas, and pink lemonade. On the way out, they allowed each visitor to pick up one of the freshly bottle colas from the plant downstairs.
It was now only 3:30PM and the Braves Baseball game was not scheduled to begin until 7:30PM, but we thought we would head over that way because the kids might get a nap in the van. We made it to turner field, parked and everyone took a nap. Then the rain came…and came…and came… We watched the rain get so hard that we could no longer see Turner field right next to us. And through it all the amazing parking attendants just stayed outside. It was crazy. Around 6 we had a break in the rain and made our way to the stadium.
We made our way up to the 755 club (This was a special privilege with the tickets we bought). It was a nice place that was air conditioned, but the line for a table was very long and we were very hungry. So we went back down with the “commoners” J and ate hot dogs under a tent while the ran continued to come down. The game was delayed and we wandered around the park for about 3 hours, visiting the Cartoon Network area for the kids…then when everyone else in the park also had this idea, we left because it was too crowded. Sam and Davis did like this area though.
Finally after finding a cool area to rest for a bit…the game finally began around 9PM. Sam and Davis also got to buy them a souvenir bat. This would prove to be a very dangerous gift and something I would somewhat regret as the bat pounded on the window, my seat, and other things in the van for the rest of the vacation.
But the game began with a retirement ceremony for Tom Glavine, which was one of the great pitchers when I was keeping up with baseball and the braves. It was neat to see him, Dale Murphy, and Phil Neikro all on the stage together. The game began and we made it about 2 innings in our cramped seats along the third base line. We then moved back upstairs to the more comfortable 755 club to enjoy more of the baseball game. We got to see Chipper hit a one-hopper over the fence, and we got to see a home run ball hit towards us in left. We then decided that 11:30PM was a good time to leave the park. When we got home I found out they lost 3-2 in the 11th inning. Oh well…we had a good time.
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