Atlanta, GA

This weekend I once again discovered that there at two 6 o'clocks in the day as I boarded the early morning megabus with Georgia, Phoebe and Annabelle to travel four hours South to Atlanta, Georgia.

Atlanta skyline

We couldn't get into our hotel until 3pm so the sight-seeing started straight away as we found the Olympic Park that was built in 1996 when they hosted the Olympics, I'm not sure how they managed that though, it was boiling and that was October! Downtown wasn't what I was expecting - everything was massive, but really quiet, kind of like New York without people!

There were a few things to do around the park; Coca cola factory, the aquarium and CNN tour. We decided to go on a tour of the CNN studios which was fun. We got to watch a live filming of an interview with Beiber's mom!

CNN Studio Tour

Too tight to buy the picture - News reporters

After dropping our bags off at the hotel, which overlooked the Olympic park from the 10th floor we headed the Martin Luther King Jr Drive where all the museums are. We had to walk through what I can only describe as the Ghetto. It was insane, I didn't realise that places like that actually existed and we suddenly became the only white people insight. This changed when we reached the tourist road again, but even then it felt quite embarrassing to be the white girls at the MLK Jnr church and museum, but very interesting!

Ebenezer Baptist Church where MLK Jnr
was baptised, preached and had his funeral

Black civil rights Muriel, Atlanta

After a day of playing tourists, we went back to quickly get ready and then headed down the road to the area where all the restaurants and bars were, it had a Hard Rock and Hooters that we really wanted to go to, but their was a football game on and it was really busy, so we couldn't get in for ages. We ended up at a Mexican restaurant instead which was lovely, then we headed back to the hotel getting a cheeky bottle of vino on the way and got a taxi to the Masquerade from there.

Bombay Bicycle Club at the Masquerade

Masquerade, Atlanta 06 October

Georgia, Jade & Annabelle at Bombay Bicycle Club

We were up and out early on Sunday to make the most of our day in Atlanta and started it at an American diner for breakfast, Southern style. I had pancakes and bacon, this 'breakfast' actually ended up filling us for lunch and dinner too it was that big!

Pancakes and Bacon breakfast

We didn't have room for a cake-away!

We explored a bit more of Downtown and saw hundreds of street singers, with not one bad one in sight. The girls were all Corinne Bailey Rae type singers and they'd have sing offs across the square they were in. I could have stayed there all day I loved it! We wandered around the business part of the city and also went to the State Capitol and Supreme court where all the fancy buildings were, it was lovely.

Being tourists in Atlanta

The woman in the hotel (we got talking to her because she could not believe that Georgia was actually called Georgia!) had recommended that we go to 'Underground Atlanta' so when we stumbled upon it we decided to check it out. It was literally like another city underground with a mall, amusements and loads of restaurants. I did a bit of tat shopping and bought an Atlanta t-shirt, just as we were all getting tired, a bit grumpy and sick of trying to find something to do for the final hour before our bus was due, we saw a Johnny Rockets, so that sorted us out ... Milkshakes and Coke floats, yes please!

Johnny Rockets American Diner

Coke Float

It's just like Eddie's!