DAY ONE consisted of trekking the humongous hartsfield–jackson atlanta international airport. finally we made it to the marta station and to our stop, peachtree center. after a fifteen minute walk lugging our bags, we arrived at our hotel and i vegged out for the night. my first ROOM SERVICE experience was crazycakes. it felt weird having my dinner delivered to me on a silver platter :/
DAY TWO was beautiful and sunny. after hiking buckhead to get to the atlanta history center, i got to tour swan house, this 19th century revival mansion (breathtaking!) and i saw exhibits on eudora wealty, folk art and the centennial olympics in atlanta. i then decided to hit up "little five points" or "L5P" (as the locals supposedly call it). guidebooks call it atlanta's premier "bohemian" neighborhood...so i knew i'd find lots o' thrifting and skinny jeans clad/rayban wearing hipsters. CHECK and CHECK. i loved it. it was so nice just walking around in the sun--people watching, stopping into shops and listening to the street musicians. IWANNAGOBACKNOW.
DAY THREE was pretty much nonstop sightseeing. first was my tour of the cnn headquarters where i was amused by this guy and his lurchiness of robin meade; NEXT was the aquarium where i got an ABOVE the scenes tour of all the exhibits. it was awesome. i love sea creatures. FINALLY was the high art museum, where i was completely immersed in the henri cartier-bresson exhibit that stretched an entire floor of the museum. his street photography was legit. it made me long for my old pentax k1000. i stopped by the gift shop and bought a book called "50 photographers you should know" and a really bizarre postcard of leo dicaprio cradling a swan bjork-style. hmm. after these marathons of sights, my feet felt like they were about to fall off, so i schlepped back to the hotel and ate onion rings. my night was spent almost falling out of a taxi cab (thanks to a RUDEASS cabbie) eating delish chicken and waffles at gladys knight's/ron winan's chicken and waffles and catching up on all the charlie sheen crazy tour 2k11.
DAY FOUR was slightly more relaxed. i spent the morning/early afternoon at the martin luther king historic site. the exhibit of his life story was incredibly moving and can't imagine how life would be today if he hadn't lived and made such an impact. i am his dream and i'm so appreciative of who he was. late afternoon consisted of WORLD OF COCA COLA. it was awesome sauce and erin and i got to learn the history of coke, take a picture with the coke POLAR BEAR and taste test SIXTY FOUR different flavors of the coke family. insanity. THAT NIGHT we finally made it to ludacris' restaurant STRAITS. it was raining cats and dogs, but the trek was worth it. we gorged ourselves with samosas, garlic noodles, sweet potato hush puppies, kung pao lollipops and a "french kiss" chocolate cake. all that, PLUS a sexyass justin timberlake sexyback era waiter. EPIC day.
our LAST DAY was spent souvenir shopping and our getting last glimpses of atlanta this time around. it was both an exhausting and awesome and i can't wait to go back and drink sweet tea in the sun and walk the streets again.
