Atlanta continued
This weekend I actually DID something (this does not include watching tv and playing on the interweb, those are assumed). Taking advantage of free museum day, we went to the High Museum and the Center for Puppetry Arts.
Let me first say that the coolest person in the world, my friend and co-worker Steph, was correct when she said puppets are creepy.
So when you first enter the puppet museum you have to wait for a green light to come on. I figure that this means there is some sort of magnificent display of puppet wonder complete with a cool video and really awesome non-threatening puppets dancing around behind the next door. Instead of this awesomeness, you walk into a dark room and are scared to death by this giant "trashcan phoenix" rising up and making scary noises. This was not a good start to my puppet museum experience. It truly freaked me out...how could this thing be made for kids?
The next room you go to is the puppet storeroom where there are many puppets hanging around looking creepy. If that wasn't weird enough, they had cut out a few boxes in the floor and had glass over them. Inside where puppets staring lifelessly up at you.
You continue on to the rest of the musem and most of it was boring/weird and it was really really small. Another thing that made the place creepy were these cabinets that you open up and they have puppets in them with a light shining on them. They call these things "Discovery Boxes". I prefer to call them "Boxes full of weird scary puppets meant to haunt you in your dreams."
In the end I'm glad we went on free museum day because I would have felt seriously ripped off paying $8 a person.
After vowing to never return to that evil place again, we headed to the High Museum. I'm not really into art so we mainly went to cross it off of my "things to do list". There were a few cool photo exhibits but overall nothing worth mentioning. The fact that the place didn't freak me out was all I cared about.
On Sunday we became even more adventurous and went to Stone Mountain. It is very much a tourist attraction but also is a good nature-y place. The mountain itself is the same rock growth as Enchanted Rock...except it's probably about 25 times bigger. I went with the thought that we were walking up the mountain while Walker thought we were taking the sky ride up. We talked to the lady we bought the park ticket from and she said that anyone with any kind of stamina could walk up the rock. We trusted her opinion because she was about 60, slightly overweight and she made the trek up fine. I think this lady was a lying liar.
They state that the walk up Stone Mountain is only 1.3 miles. However it was all at an incline...I have not felt pain like that in a looong time. I seriosuly thought I would pass out. I stopped a couple of times and pretended that I was stopping to enjoy the view but I really just wanted to stop my heart from exploding. Once I made it to the top it took me about 25 minutes before my face went from tomato red to my normal color. This is when we decided that we better take the skylift down. Little did we know that taking the skylift down would put us a mile and a half away from where our car was parked. This second trek wasn't nearly as bad since it was just a nature walk in the tress with little to no incline. Needless to say we burned a few calories that day, so obviously that gave us an excuse to eat whatever we want. We went to Outback where we enjoyed some Aussie Bacon and Cheese fries in addition to the bread and our entrees. Ahhh...nothing like topping off a weekend full of exercise with a mind-blowing amount of calories consumed.
I hope this post wasn't too boring.
Oh, and Steph - these video gems are JUST FOR YOU:
Video 1
Video 2
Let me first say that the coolest person in the world, my friend and co-worker Steph, was correct when she said puppets are creepy.
So when you first enter the puppet museum you have to wait for a green light to come on. I figure that this means there is some sort of magnificent display of puppet wonder complete with a cool video and really awesome non-threatening puppets dancing around behind the next door. Instead of this awesomeness, you walk into a dark room and are scared to death by this giant "trashcan phoenix" rising up and making scary noises. This was not a good start to my puppet museum experience. It truly freaked me out...how could this thing be made for kids?
The next room you go to is the puppet storeroom where there are many puppets hanging around looking creepy. If that wasn't weird enough, they had cut out a few boxes in the floor and had glass over them. Inside where puppets staring lifelessly up at you.
You continue on to the rest of the musem and most of it was boring/weird and it was really really small. Another thing that made the place creepy were these cabinets that you open up and they have puppets in them with a light shining on them. They call these things "Discovery Boxes". I prefer to call them "Boxes full of weird scary puppets meant to haunt you in your dreams."
In the end I'm glad we went on free museum day because I would have felt seriously ripped off paying $8 a person.
After vowing to never return to that evil place again, we headed to the High Museum. I'm not really into art so we mainly went to cross it off of my "things to do list". There were a few cool photo exhibits but overall nothing worth mentioning. The fact that the place didn't freak me out was all I cared about.
On Sunday we became even more adventurous and went to Stone Mountain. It is very much a tourist attraction but also is a good nature-y place. The mountain itself is the same rock growth as Enchanted Rock...except it's probably about 25 times bigger. I went with the thought that we were walking up the mountain while Walker thought we were taking the sky ride up. We talked to the lady we bought the park ticket from and she said that anyone with any kind of stamina could walk up the rock. We trusted her opinion because she was about 60, slightly overweight and she made the trek up fine. I think this lady was a lying liar.
They state that the walk up Stone Mountain is only 1.3 miles. However it was all at an incline...I have not felt pain like that in a looong time. I seriosuly thought I would pass out. I stopped a couple of times and pretended that I was stopping to enjoy the view but I really just wanted to stop my heart from exploding. Once I made it to the top it took me about 25 minutes before my face went from tomato red to my normal color. This is when we decided that we better take the skylift down. Little did we know that taking the skylift down would put us a mile and a half away from where our car was parked. This second trek wasn't nearly as bad since it was just a nature walk in the tress with little to no incline. Needless to say we burned a few calories that day, so obviously that gave us an excuse to eat whatever we want. We went to Outback where we enjoyed some Aussie Bacon and Cheese fries in addition to the bread and our entrees. Ahhh...nothing like topping off a weekend full of exercise with a mind-blowing amount of calories consumed.
I hope this post wasn't too boring.
Oh, and Steph - these video gems are JUST FOR YOU:
Video 1
Video 2