We woke up to Gobble Gobble Gobble of Mr Smokey (and our alarm on our first full day in Atlanta.) Breakfast was to be served between 0930 and 1030. We went to the main house for breakfast and to be honest I can’t remember what we had but it was delicious. There were two women with a young girl we met at the breakfast table and we were talking with them about what they did the day before. They told us about going to the king center and catching the street car and went to Sweet Auburn Market. So we decided to take advantage of the free parking at the Martin Luther King Dr. National Memorial and hop the street car into Atlanta.
We parked in the Martin Luther King Jr National Memorial parking and made our way toward the Street car stop. We did end up stopping at Education Center and looked around and heard and saw the history of the civil rights movement. It was very interesting. We also stopped by the Civil rights rose garden which was lovely. Our last stop before the street car station was The Ebenezer Baptist church where Martin Luther King Sr and Jr both preached. It is a lovely old church (they build a new one across the street) and is now under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. I took a lot of pictures.
The street car was neat and was pretty much on the honor system but we had bought a day pass anyway. We got off the street car at Olympic Centennial park stop and walked through the park toward the world of Coca-cola. We got to the world of Coca-cola and decided to take the VIP tour so we bought tickets to that and then went off to find something to eat since our tour wasn’t for two hours. We walked a couple of blocks over and found a Coal Oven Pizza place. We were seated and had a Zucchinator pizza. They serve only one size pizza a 12” pizza. Our pizza turned out the be a pizza without sauce and it had, among other things, zucchini on it. It was delicious. The atmosphere was friendly and they played great 80s tunes overhead. WE sat around there until It was time to walk back to Coke.
When we arrived we were still early so we went to the gift shop to look around. Many cool things at the coke gift shop.
When it was time for our tour we went into the big lobby and they gave us all a small six oz coke of our choice (zero, Life, diet or regular). Our tour guide, Taz was very nice and she was very educated to coke history and such. She took us around the whole museum. The museum was great. They had a section on the history of the creation of coke. It was invented made by a chemist and the formula remains the same to this day (with the New coke SNAFU for those 79 days in 1985) They keep the original hand written formula in a vault in the museum with is guarded by video camera’s and alarms. (Really it is!) We earned that coke NEVER had Cocaine in it (it’s make from the Cocca leaf but is not cocaine), that coke tastes the same around the world because everyone has to buy the syrup from the united states. It is always a 5:1 Ration of coke syrup to water. Some countries use sugar to sweeten, some use stevia and the US uses High Fructose Corn Syrup to sweeten. 
They had a display of Olympic torches because Coke is always a sponsor of the Olympics. Part of our tour included a chance to hold past Olympic torches from Seoul, Atlanta, Lillehammer , one other. That was pretty neat to do. They had a room with old advertisements for coke from the 20’s 30’s and 40’s as well as The coke polar bear and Coke Santa. They had a room of just artist painted large coke bottles. Just beautiful. They also had “the perfect pause” room which had a continuous film of Coke advertising for TV and a short history of Coke which was interesting.
The final room was the tasting room. It was all different coke products from around the world. South America, North America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Some were good and some were not. It was a great tour and we got a foot tall coke bottle bank to start our next vacation fund. (I thought it would be fun)
After our tour we hauled butt back to the street car and rode to the King station again. We were to meet Our friend Mike and his wife of two years, Lindsey at a place called Six Feet Under (a bar and grille with craft beers) Mike used to work with Eric in Kissimmee a few years ago and now lives in Atlanta. Dinner and conversation was great. After dinner, we ended up at a craft beer store where we sampled beer. Lindsey turned me on to sour beers which are good. We were there about 30 minutes and walked out with a growler of a yummy beer. Then we moved over to another place where we had drinks and played trivia. It was a lot of fun. We parted ways around 10 or 10:30 I believe and went back to the B&B.
It was a long day but a good day.
