Atlanta Trip Day 2

Friday was another early morning. We had to get up at 5:30am (3:30 am MST), to get breakfast before loading the buses to head to Columbus for the tours of Aflac Headquarters. This was one time we were not all that excited to go, but we went anyway. The ride was the worst part of it all, 2 hours long! The first campus we went to was where all the claims, call center and stuff like that were. They even had mail robots, but they were not around while we were there it was a little disapointing.

The duck pond out side the building of our first stop.


More duck pond.


If you have ever been to the east coast it is much different that our west cost or at least Colorado, we saw trees everywhere!


The Aflac Tower, our next stop


Aflac tower


Up in the Aflac tower we got to see the founder of Aflac, we were able to meet him up on the 19th floor we also got to be in the confrence room, it was really cool.

The confrence room, the table is a semi circle and all in one piece!


More confrence room


Chandelers in the confrence room, the building sways a little so the lights look like they are moving, but they are trying to stay level.


Aflac coasters, who knew


The pic of the founders, father and three sons, the Amos's


Mr. Paul Amos


The view from the tower, you can see part of the Aflac sign on the left


More view


More view


Mikel on the tower


When you look at this picture what do you see?


It's a house on a parking garage!


The founder and his wife lived there, he for 3 years and her for another 10 years.


This was too cool!


Bruger King in a house, go figure


Piggly Wiggly's


The Printing press, where all the Aflac policys are printed


Mikel with our Aflac tour guide, she took us around all the Aflac stuff in Columbus


The Chattonoga river


We ate lunch right by that river. After lunch there were some Aflac booths set up, where you can ask questions and things about the workings of Aflac. Plus you can pick up some pretty cool stuff. Then we made our trip back to Atlanta where we had dinner inspired by Nascar. It was a BBQ buffet basically. After dinner we decided to go swimming in the pool, with our friends from Colorado. It was quite fun at first then it got cold or at least I got cold. After we got out we decided to walk around Atlanta to get some dessert. We were on our way to a place that was reccomended to us from the concerige, then we ran into a Hard Rock Cafe. Mikel and I have never been to one before so we decided to go and see what it was all about and eat. We decided to get an appitizer and drinks to start with. I ended up getting a wildberry smoothee that was a pink ribbon sponsered drink. As we were waiting on our drinks and food we wandered around to see everything on the walls, it was amazing the stuff you see there, and also wandered into the retail store. Then our watress let us know that our food was there is didn't want it to get cold, so we ate. Then we ordered dessert, and looked around the store again and decided to get some shirts and a bear for Dillon. The watress once again came by to let us know that our dessert was ready. After we finished dessert we were ready to head to bed, so we did.

Atlanta Trip Day 1

Things started early Thursday morning, dropping Dillon off and catching our 8:55am flight to Atlanta. We dropped Dillon off at my in-laws house and then Mikel's mom drove us to the airport. I was so tired that morning. I had a hard time keeping my eyes open, but since this was my first time flying I was also a little gitty and excited... I take that back I was extremely gitty and excited!! When we got there and got our luggage checked, it was on to getting through security. I was unsure about how fast were were going to get through, but surprisingly we got through rather quickly. After we made it to our concourse we decided to get some breakfast. After breakfast we went to our terminal where we would board. While waiting we saw some friends that we also going on this trip with us. It was nice to have people around that we enjoy to be around. Then after awhile it was time to board the plane. I was so nervous and also wanted a window seat (I had no idea where our seats were to be) I lucked out I got one!! We were getting all ready to go and the captian comes on the loud speaker saying that the emergency door will not latch, so we had to wait for a mechanic, that drove me crazy. I was thinking that it was going to take a while and what not, but it didn't take that long. I started to get really excited when we started to move, then as we go to the runway. Once we started down the runway it was so fun it felt like a rush. We got off the ground and it felt like we were riding a rollar coaster. I was so nervous with every little turn that the plane made. Once we were stable I pulled out my ipod an listened to that while watching the screen on the back of the seat in front of me of where we were and all the info about altitude, MPH, wind, time left in flight, current time, and current time at destination. I was able to catch a little sleep but not much. The landing was quite fun although right before we landed we ran into a little turbulence. It felt like we were going over little hills, but never before have I had my stomach jump so much in one time. From the airport we caught the bus to our Hotel. The Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. It was so big!! There is 22 floors to this hotel.

This is inside of the hotel.


These are the coolest elevators ever! They were so fun and fast.







Here are some pics of Atlanta from the balcony of our hotel room








After we got settled I called my cousin who was in Atlanta, so I was lucky to be able to meet up with him. He works for Delta as a Flight Attandent so I was lucky that he was in town that weekend. We decided with my cousin as well as that other couple that flew out with us that we would check out Olympic park. The olympics were there in '96 i believe.

Olympic Park


My cousin Travis


This a water garden and there was no water, because the water was low there so they had to conserve


I thoght this was funny, this is right by the water garden.


When I saw this I though it was pretty cool then we got closer.


Underneath there were flags from all over the world!




Apparently it is called Quilt of Nations


After looking around at the park we decided to go to the World of Coca Cola.

Out side the World of Coca Cola




This is at the entrance


Mikel and I with the statue of the founder of Coca Cola


Travis and I with the statue of the founder of Coca Cola


This is a trash can right outside the building


These bottles are really cool.


Vending machine


The Coca Cola Bear


Me with the Coca Cola Bear


The first Soda fountian for Coca Cola


The Coca Cola car


With Argentina licence plates


Vending machines


More vending machines


All of the Coca Cola products


More cool bottles, I really like the Chinese hat


Tasters Club! This is where we got to taste about 64 different flavors from all over the world.


The Coca Cola Store


We had so much fun. The Coca Cola factory was a blast! We then had dinner that night and left early to meet up with my cousin and his wife. This was the first time I had met his wife. We then decided to wander Atlanta and ran into a bum who wanted money. Then we made it to the Mcdonalds and got some fries to share and a couple drinks and I got a cone. Then after that we decided to end the night.

That was Day 1 look for Day 2 coming soon.

The Trip

I know you all are wondering how our trip out to Atlanta was. Well I am waiting for the pictures that need to be transfered all 543 of them! As soon as I can get them done then I will get at post or more up. It may take more than one post to get through it all.