World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta

For Jerusha's and my 4th wedding anniversary trip, we all (yes, including the girls) went to the Atlanta area for a long weekend. First we hit the World of Coca-Cola in downtown Atlanta and had fun seeing both how Coke was first made, how it's made today, and the cultural impact it has made both here and internationally.


Once inside, the famous Coca-Cola polar bear was there to greet us. Everyone loves this furry fellow, right? Well, everyone but Grace (and probably other small children), that is. Notice her death grip on my shirt.


He pretended to be sad when Grace cried at the sight of him, but for the next two days Grace chattered about how she made the bear cry. Selective memory is an amusing thing.

Here we are watching the Coke get bottled.

Reminded me of those Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood excursions where he'd show how peanut butter was made or something.

The best part, though, was the last part where there were soft drinks from around the world for you to sample. Grace, who rarely gets soda/pop/coke, loved this part, as did the rest of us.

They wouldn't let us take this Coke bottle home...

So we settled for some smaller souvenirs.

Abigail was desperate to try some Coke, too.

World of Coca-Cola conquered.

Up next: Stone Mountain, Georgia!

Check out our Picasa album here or the slideshow to the right for more pictures from this weekend. Jerusha could only get 303 of our pictures up there, so it's still incomplete by some people's standards. ;)