Schedule Update:

We received great news today that we are going to the White House! We were able to get our tour. Unfortunately, it's on the morning we were going to get to DC, so we're arriving a day earlier from VA. We'll be doing the White House, Capital, Engraving, and an all day Monument tour. Should be fun!

Hello from Atlanta, GA (actually, Red Top Mountain State Park, just North of Atlanta)!

After a pretty easy drive down the interstate, we're here for the next 3 nights, and will be doing a little sightseeing, although we don't have a lot planned, I think just the aquarium.

We'll also be visiting Scott Franks and family, a long time family friend of Michelle's. He's also a pastor of a church here, and we'll be attending mid-week services with them tomorrow (Wednesday) night.

Today is a day of work catchup, billing, and homework for the girls. They are working on Social Studies and reading I think, and it's more and more apparent that full-time homeschooling is not in the Davis Family future. ;-> I'm pretty sure I saw the makings of a picket sign under Michelle's bed this morning.

There's a lovely lake area here, so we'll get over there, and also head into Atlanta (probably tomorrow).

Nightly Update:

We learned tonight that there are small scorpions in Georgia. The girls found one in the sink in the bath house, plus some mutated grass hopper that looked like it was part T-Rex. Needless to say Dad had to help with shower time and killing all manner of bugs (I didn't kill the grass hopper, but did toss him aside...no love for the scorpion though...)

Wednesday Update:

Today was a busy day. We slept in a bit accidentally, still on Central time, and got a relatively late start. We headed down into downtown Atlanta, and visited the Coca Cola store, and also walked around Olympic Centennial park, where a majority of the 1996 activities took place. The Coke tour was pretty cool, with 4d movie, lots of coke stuff to look at obviously, and 64 different flavors of Coke to test from all around the world. Olympic Park was also cool with a great water feature/fountain made out of the 5 rings on the ground. The area is well patrolled, and despite the high number of homeless people around, we felt safe. We also saw the memorial area from the 1996 bombing there, which was relatively small news, presumably to keep the focus on the ceremonies of games.

We also stopped by a small science museum, which didn't have much too it, but that was fine since we didn't have much time.

Tomorrow will be just fun for the girls (after homework), and I'll be catching up on work. There's a lake beach here, and we'll head down there as well. We're heading to Gainesville on Friday and will have a great time at Jungle Friends on Saturday.

Thursday Update:

Today turned out to be mostly a work day for the whole family. The kids did school work for most of the day, and Michelle was the teacher, lunch lady, janitor, and mom. Big jobs, all of them. I caught up on some work, and got the trailer ready for tomorrow.

After school work, the girls spent a couple of hours at the lake beach here, which is very nice, and they had a great time. Kenzie got buried in the sand by Faith, and needed a bit of help to get out. We spent the evening cooking hot dogs and smores over the campfire.

We're heading out to Gainesville in the morning, and it's a fairly long drive of 6 hours. We'll hang out there tomorrow and then Saturday is the big Monkey day...should be a lot of fun.

Faith's blog:
Today we went to the Coca Cola factory. It was fun. We got to taste a whole lot of Coca Cola. It was goooood. We also got to see the cycle of which coca cola was made in. We got a free bottle of coca cola to take home too.

Kenzie's blog:
We got to see the World of Coke Museum. It was really cool! We saw coke being made and we got to taste 64 types of soda. We also saw where the Olympics were held. It was turned into a baseball field.


Photos:

Atlanta

Most of the photos and video are from the World of Coke, since that's where we spent most of our time.

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