Spring break trip to Georgia

We headed to Georgia for 5 days of our spring break.  We first stopped in the town of Newnan (an hour from Atlanta) for a great Thai dinner and to see a local amateur theater perform "Joseph."  It wasn't Donny Osmond, but it was cute!

We're turning into rednecks

We found an Anne Frank Museum, with a fascinating film and great displays.

Here's a recreation of Anne's bedroom (above) and her house (below)

At the downtown Atlanta Central Library, I enjoyed a Margaret Mitchell display.

These are books from Margaret Mitchell's bookshelf, which helped her learn about the Civil War.

This is the typewriter on which she typed Gone with the Wind.

The library also had a Ben Hur display, with 2 of the chariots!

For 2 nights, we stayed near the Atlanta Temple.

Madi and Eliza after church.  We picked a random ward in Lillburn, picked because the children liked its start time of 12:00 noon.

Approaching downtown Atlanta

At an Alabama rest stop store

Not pictured:  Lyrad, Eliza, Madi and Josh toured the Center for Disease Control Headquarters. 

Lyrad, Eliza and Madi also spent a few minutes in the Atlanta Underground.  Our Atlanta tourbook from the library was published in 1995 and raved about the neat underground shopping street, right next to the World of Coke.  Eliza and Madi wanted to try it out, so after we left the Coca Cola Factory, we asked a policeman where we could enter Underground Atlanta.  He said the Coke factory had moved, since it was previously in such a bad part of town, and HE would never take his family to the Underground area.  So that made Eliza and Madi even more curious to see it...  so I dropped Lyrad, Eliza and Isaac off and drove around the block (because parking is impossible to find in the downtown area).  When I came around the block, they were already finished and ready to leave.  Lyrad didn't like the way all the rough-looking men down there were looking at his daughters....  all 3 had a very bad feeling about it so they didn't stay down there long!  The tour guide made it sound so neat and historical...   good lesson to get an updated tour book!