Wednesday,
May 6
Day
29
We
got up and went to the beautiful club facility in their community.
We were able to work out with weights and on the elliptical while
Elaine did an abbreviated version of her work out. She usually does
a 3 hour work out! We had breakfast and then headed into Atlanta.
It was a bit of a frantic day. We parked near Centennial Park which was a constructed gathering place for the 1996 Olympics. Paid for the same parking spot twice as
the machine said it couldn't read the card, so we put in cash and got
2 receipts, one on the card and one for cash. How annoying. The park has a lot of construction and remodeling currently going on which made it a little difficult to see things.
Jodi
had an interview with Jean from Northwest Catholic who is doing a
story about our travels in their online version soon. She was
interested in our experiences of going to Mass in different churches.
After the interview we walked around the Coke Center and Georgia
Aquarium. There were many school children on the lawns. We thought
about going in to see one of them. Coke originated in Atlanta. The
Georgia Aquarium is the largest aquarium in the world.
We opted out and wandered around, got a little lunch and then drove down to the Martin Luther King Historic sight that is run by The National Park Service. The visitor's center had a very interesting exhibit on MLK's life, work, and lasting contribution. There were video clips of his speech and his funeral. I did not know that he essentially did his own eulogy. It was all quite powerful. You may want read his eulogy. The visitor center is built right by his childhood home. They gave tours of the home but by the time we got there the tickets were all spoken for. He came from a very close, very religious family. His father and grandfather were both pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist church which was 1 block from the family home. He and Coretta's graves are both there as well. Very powerful and well done, although the park service needs to spend some money giving the exhibits a little TLC.
We eventually drove over to Turner Field and did our usual tour of the outside and inside of the stadium, taking pictures.
We opted out and wandered around, got a little lunch and then drove down to the Martin Luther King Historic sight that is run by The National Park Service. The visitor's center had a very interesting exhibit on MLK's life, work, and lasting contribution. There were video clips of his speech and his funeral. I did not know that he essentially did his own eulogy. It was all quite powerful. You may want read his eulogy. The visitor center is built right by his childhood home. They gave tours of the home but by the time we got there the tickets were all spoken for. He came from a very close, very religious family. His father and grandfather were both pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist church which was 1 block from the family home. He and Coretta's graves are both there as well. Very powerful and well done, although the park service needs to spend some money giving the exhibits a little TLC.
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| Inside Ebenezer Baptist church |
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| Grave |
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| MLK jr's childhood home |
We eventually drove over to Turner Field and did our usual tour of the outside and inside of the stadium, taking pictures.
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| Hank Aaron statue |
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| Turner Field,Home of the Atlanta Braves |
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