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Vacation: Hot-ltanta!

Altanta, Georgia, the home of CNN, Coca Cola and great southern food!

We took a few days off work to go down and visit Dad at a conference in Atlanta. It was not difficult getting around town and so we started at the CNN center taking a tour of the facility which was designed to be a shopping center and certainly had the feel of one.

There we saw the live broadcast of CNN news and watched how they made everything happen. TV cameras, monitors, people running around on the phone,...takes a lot to bring the news to us.



Of more interest was the Coca-cola World where they keep all the history about the company from old posters to the original bottles and glasses that they served Coke in.

They also had all of these huge painted Coke bottles with different patterns from around the world and then right at the end, they have different type of Coke products from around the world. Posted by Picasa

Vacation: Chicago for X'Mas

It is Christmas time and we decided to head to the Windy City for a break and to get some Chicago Christmas cheer. Michigan Avenue was all lit up and decorated with Christmas colors, the shops were full with last minute shoppers, and we just enjoyed wondering around the city taking it all in.

Christmas tree infront of Sears Tower.


















Did you ever wonder how pigeons in the city keep warm? Wonder no more!

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