The coke place

The world of Coca Cola was interesting. It was new and they had a Coke museum and other stuff. The first thing we saw when we got inside were huge Coke bottles that were from different countries. Then, we went to the Coke museum that had signs and other stuff that were used to advertise Coke. It had some paintings by Norman Rockwell. After that, there was a movie called Happiness factory that showed what happened when you got a Coke from a vending machine. There were little blue people that would fill the bottle with Coca Cola and then some penguins would chill it and then it would fall off a big cliff and you could get it. After that, we went to the bottling plant there that bottled cokes. it produces more than the Coca Cola place needs. Then, we went to Milestones of Refreshments where there were Coke artifacts from around the world like a delivery truck. There was also a thing that told you how much things were when Coke was 5 cents. A hotel room was 1 dollar!! At the end, there were Olympic torches. I also saw a whole bunch of Olympic pins. We also saw "The Secret Coke Formula" that was 4-d and had a lot of special effects. There was a button on the seat and when we ran into a piece of wood, it poked us in the back! Also, the seats always moved around so we were jerked from one place to another. Then, we went to Taste it where we tasted different flavors. I liked Inca Kola or Bitter Lemon.

Then, we went to Pop Culture where we saw things made out of Coke. Then, we went home.

The Georgia Aquarium was huge. It had different exhibits with different themes. There was a tropical diver for the tropics, a Cold Water thing for Alaska and Canada, a Exploring Georgia for Georgia, a River scout for the North American rivers and such and a Ocean Voyager so you can see the whale sharks and other huge fish. First, we went to the touch pool. It was where the Southern stingrays swum around in circles with a few really small hammerhead sharks. You could touch them and so we did. The hammerhead felt smooth while the rays were jusst plain slimy. If you walked into Georgia Explorer, then, there was another touch pool where you could touch shrimp. The shrimp always ran away so I didn't touch them much. Past that was yet another touch pool where you could touch horseshoe crabs. If you walked out of that and into River Scout, you got to see a river above your head and different parts of the river with different animals like turtles and garfish on both sides. at the end, there were two Asian small-clawed otters but they were sleeping. Next, we went on a tour that showed us the "behind the scenes" stuff like the top of the Ocean voyager and the top of the River Scout. After that, we went to Cold Water thing (I dont know what thing is) and saw some otters getting fed. I took a million pictures and when we were done, the camera ran out of batteries. There was also a penguin crawl tunnel where you crawed through a tunnel and got close to the penguins by standing up in glass cylinders that let you take pictures. Even old ladies were doing it! We saw a couple of beluga whales and went on a 4-d show called Deepo's underwater wondershow. It was pretty informative. Then, the coolest part was when we went into the tunnel of glass and saw the huge whale sharks and manta rays.They just swam over our heads and passed on. There were Giant grouper, HUUUGE Whale sharks, and manta rays. There were also some sawfish. I liked the Georgia Aquarium because it was just cool.

Zoo Atlanta- Parakeets.

The parakeet place was probably the coolest place in the zoo. It had hundreds of parakeets and you could feed them seed sticks that were one dollar each. However, I became more cautious because I saw a little girl and she got pooped on. The parakeets mere mostly green and yellow but there were some blue and all white ones. You could hold the seed stick close to them and they would nibble on them. They ate soooo slow! When 30 minutes passed, they still hadn't finished the seed stick! Some times, when they were scattered around the trees, they would suddenly fly to one corner and form a green and blue rainbow on the netting. They were very cute. There was a green one that looked like he had a beard so I called him the "king". The "King" did not want to eat from my seed stick.

Next to the parakeet place, there was a warthog place and there were 4 warthogs in there. They looked like Pumba in the movie the Lion King. They were not very smelly at all.

I liked the red pandas , the komodo dragon, and the pandas the most. The red panda was sleeping but you could automatically tell that they were super cute. He was more dull orange than red and was like a rug because he was spread out. The komodo dragon was cool because he looked so ugly and fearsome. He had a long tail that was scaly and a ugly head that looked liked a giant lizard head. He was resting. The pandas I liked most because they just looked really cuddly and cute. One was sleeping and the other one was eating bamboo. It was almost human like how it ate. They were fatter than I thought and very sad looking. They looked very, very sad. I saw a thing that talked about the pandas trip from China to the US. They said that they had first class cabins but when I looked at the "cabin" they were in, it was just a cage the size of a cardboard box!

There were also some rides that we did such as the train. We did the train and figured out that since we had wristbands, it was free so we stayed on 16 times! Then, we went to the merry go round which we rode on 4 times and then we went to the rock wall. The rock wall was very tall so I was kind of scared the first time. I almost went to the top but fell! I fell! Well, there was an automatic belay system that made the fall enjoyable and I felt that I was flying.

Assi

Assi was a huge store even huger than Sam's or Walmart. It sold food mostly. They had a million samples from Mexican food to Korean food. We went in there just planning to look around and then eat at a resturaunt but after we went in, we wouldn't go out so we stayed there and when we came out, we were not hungry one bit! There was also a Mexican section there where there was a wheel that you could spin and you could win things like a soda or a box of tortillas. Most people got a bumber sticker though. My brother however, won a soda!

The Naturalist center was coooooool!!!!!!!!!! They had stuffed birds and stuffed polar bears and human skulls and snakes floating in an alcoholic mixture to preserve them and samples of rocks and bones and mammal skins etc. etc.! There was a deer that they stuffed in a jar and snakes were floating in the solution and the frogs were too. There were cabinets and when you opened them, there were drawers and if you pulled them out, they contained stuff like human jaw bones and and bird skins and snake skins and rocks and shells and stuff like that. There was a ton of stuffed birds along one wall and all the hawks and eagles seemed to stare down at you and there was a little stuffed chipmunk and two ferrets and a wolf. There were two foxes and a big, ugly, groundhog. The bills of allthe birds were plastic because the original ones would have corroded already. There were all sorts of fish with no pupils that were floating in the jars and seacucumbers and spineless creepy things. There were butterflies that were pinned down to a tray and beetles and cicadas and all sorts of stuff. There were two tigers and a skeleton of somebody from the 1900's. I asked" Are these people donors or do you go out and dig the bones up" and they dug them up. There were Inca people and Egyptian people and femurs and humors and all that stuff. I asked, "do you have things like brains floating in vinegar or organs and such" but they said they had no organs. Everything there was dead.

I went to Grayson Highlands. We drove 4 hours from Raleigh to there and hiked 5 miles to our campsite. It was raining during the hike so it was cool and wasn't stifling or super hot. The hike was all uphill and we had to rest several times to let the people at the back catch up. We got to a shelter and there was a little notebook there. Mr. Murrell told us it was a shelter log. There was also a pen so you could write your experiences in it. We hiked all the way up until there we saw a bald part on the mountain. I ran to it thinking that we had finally got to our campsite but it wasn't ours. We had to hike another mile to get to our campsite. There were a lot of horse manure around because people ride their horses up here. We got to our campsite and we put up our tent. Me and Penn were tenting together. We had to careful not to put our tent on manure. After that we went down to the spring to get water. There was no tap so you had to get water from a spring. We had a water pump and we use a pump. We also boiled it with a Jetboil. We had food and went to bed. In the night, it rained really hard and our tent leaked. We had a bad night. In the the morning, we ate, and hiked back down. You had to be careful about slippery rocks. We got down and drove home.

Ontario science centre

This museum was AWESOME!!!! It was huge too! We saw an imax about the Hubble first and then explored. We went to the Harry Potter Exhibition. We saw props and costumes that were in the movies. They were exactly the same as I pictured in the book. There were the Quiditch uniforms, the school robes, the Quaffles, the snitch, the wands, the boggart chest, the chess pieces, the talking pictures, the floating candles, the mandrakes, the potions book, etc. We also saw a science place where you could make your own shoe and make a movie. We also saw some cool materials, like the lightest solid on Earth which was called aerogel. There was also shape retaining metal. go here.

Niagara Falls

We went to Niagara Falls. First, we just walked along the top of the falls where there was a railing. We could see both waterfalls, Canadian and American falls. You see, Niagara is made up of 2 falls, American falls and Canadian Falls. Canadian falls is also called Horseshoe falls. We saw some machines where you put in a dollar and you could see far away but some were broken so you didn't have to put in a dollar to see. Well, when we got closer to the falls, there was a strong wind and it blew water up into your face and got you all wet. My brother said he was thirsty and I said to just "open your mouth". Well, we got back and went on the boat. They handed you blue ponchos that you wore. Then, we boarded the boat. A recorded voice talked about the falls and about kings and dictators looking at the falls and stuff. When we got close to the falls, the wind blew though our sleeves and puffed up our poncho so we looked like fat people. My brother held out a bottle to collect water from Niagara Falls but only got a few drops. He thought we were actually going under the falls! When got back on dry land, we ate something and then left.

RBC gold building

We saw a building with real gold in the windows. That is right! Real GOLD! 2 million dollars of it are infused into the windows. The government of Toronto said that they couldn't build the tallest tower so the RBC people decided to build the most beautiful building. It is pretty tall though.

MORE FACTS not part of my experience

1. They made it so that you cant get the gold

CN tower

Me, my dad and my brother went to the CN Tower. My mom didn't want to go because she said she didn't like tall buildings. It is the tallest building in the world. When we walked over to the CN tower, we saw a fountain where people threw a lot of trash in. We went inside the lower part of the tower where you pay for all your tickets and stuff. There was a machine where you walked in and it blew air on to you. Then, we got onto an elevator that went 15 miles per hour up the side of the building. I think these things were designed to scare little kids because the floor was glass and the walls were glass and everything was glass. When we got to the top, I looked out the window. The view was spectacular! You could see the islands,the other buildings. They looked puny compared to the CN Tower. There was a resturant at the top and it spun! We didn't feel it spinning because it spun once every hour. There was a upstairs but a mean lady said, "Get down unless ya want to eat!" Except she said it in a nicer way. The downstairs was the awesomest place I have to agree. It had a glass floor and these kids who were from a girl's school or something kept on jumping! It was REALLY scary because it was glass and you could see down to the bottom and there were spiky stuff down at the bottom! It said it could hold 14 large hippos and I'm pretty sure that all thoes girls and the other people were 15 large hippos. There was also a mini museum that showed facts about the CN tower. There was also a Skypod place which was the tallest man-made observation deck. We didn't go because it was around 20 more bucks per person. There was a outdoor observation deck where we saw some workers working. They were cutting right through the mesh and leaning on it too! I wouldn't do that for a million bucks! I really liked the CN tower and wish to go again.