Atlanta Weekend

We took a weekend trip to Atlanta back in February on one of Drew's four day weekends.  Our agenda included the zoo, the children's museum and the aquarium.  The weather was perfect and it was a lot of fun.  Our first stop was the zoo on Friday.

This kangaroo was just too much for me.  I could just imagine it saying  "How YOU doin'".

The only reason we took this picture of the goats in the petting zoo was the middle one was the goat version of Roxie.  It had the same coloring, had short legs, a long body, and just looked kind of dopey trotting along.

This panda was so chill eating its bamboo.  We found out from a zoo worker

 that there are only three zoos in the U.S. that have pandas.

Of course one of Luke's favorite things was the train.  Say "choo choo"!

We have no idea why it's called Zoo Atlanta and not the other way around.

We spent one night in a hotel while we were there.  We stayed at Drury because we like all the perks and it didn't disappoint.  In addition to the regular perks of free snacks/soda, dinner, hot breakfast, cocktails and the pool, we got a free upgrade when we arrived.  The extra room was definitely appreciated!  We've already looked ahead to see if there are Drurys we can stay at on our trip to California and there are!  The free cocktails might be really useful after 10-12 hour rides alone with the kids for three days!

First thing in the morning we headed to the children's museum.  It and the aquarium were across the street from each other.  The museum was not what we expected and it was way too expensive for what you get.  Luke did have some fun, so I guess that's what's it's all about.

We headed to the aquarium early afternoon.  Big mistake.  We totally should have gone there first.  I have no idea what we were thinking.  It's the largest aquarium in the world and always super busy and it was Saturday.  To say that is was packed is an understatement.  It's an awesome place but it was hard to enjoy when you were shoulder-to-shoulder with people the entire time.  We also had our stroller because we couldn't find our front carrier when we got to Georgia.  Ugh, it makes me so claustrophobic just thinking about it again.  It is worth the experience and money though, but if we ever go again it will definitely be on a weekday morning.

(February 18-19, 2011)