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Wordless Wednesday - Atlanta, Georgia

Overlooking the city of Atlanta, Georgia from Stone Mountain

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Georgia aquarium - Atlanta, Georgia

While on our Atlanta, Georgia family vacation we went to the Georgia Aqurium. I must say that after hearing about the aquarium from so many people I was a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was a great aquarium. After all the build up there was nothing overly special or unique about it. With that said the beluga whales where gone for renovation. It was incredibly over priced. (They will not give you a military discount at the door. Instead to get the military price you must buy tickets on a near by military base.) We would not go back based on the price.

They did have several touch pools that my kids loved. They got to touch sting rays, star fish, and a bunch of other stuff.

There were five areas with lots of various sea life to see.

My son was thrilled to meet Nemo. (They don't actually call him Nemo, but I can't remember his name and he does look a lot like Nemo!)

There was a dark area with lots of jellyfish.

We were done with the main areas cover by regular admission with in two hours. I hear from StressFreeBaby that a dolphin exhibit is on it's way in 2011!

Other activities available with extra costs were a movie and shark exibit.

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Stone Mountain Park - Georgia

While in Atlanta, Georgia on our family vacation we went out to Stone Mountain. It was twenty minutes outside of Atlanta. Our family had a wonderful experience at Stone Mountain and all of us highly recommend it.

We went during a great time, because they had already started having Stone Mountain Christmas. We knew we would be there late in order to meet Santa, so we went out there in the afternoon around 2 pm.

The first thing we did was ride a cable car up to the top of Stone mountain. This didn't take very long at all, but they sure cram people into the car. Once up there you can enjoy a great view. We could see all of Atlanta.

Next we went to the Barn. Our kids loved it. It is a four story barn with a challenge game in it. The kids collect 'fruit' different colored balls. Then they had to carry the fruits through the different levels and complete various challenges for points.

In the barn were tube slides that went from the fourth floor to the bottom floor and trampoline like floors!

Other activities included: miniature golf, a welcome parade when Santa arrived, 4d Polar Express movie, meeting Santa and Mrs. Claus, fireworks, light show, train ride that stops and has a show in the middle, eateries and shopping.

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Children's Museum of Atlanta

We were only in Atlanta, Georgia for two days, which I thought wouldn't be enough time to do much of anything. I couldn't have been more wrong. There's so much to do in Atlanta. The first thing we did was the Children's Museum of Atlanta.

I thought the children's museum was great. I believe it is for children 8 and younger and you have to pay for anyone 2 years old and up. We got a military discount for all of us which made it $9 something each. We were there for less than three hours which was plenty of time for us.

This is an area where kids can work together to move blocks around.