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On our first day in Atlanta, we went on the Coke tour. It was CRAZY busy, but, it was our first meeting with our friends the Herth’s—and we fell together like peanut butter and jelly. Audrey and Nina were off in no time jabbering...and Cade was looking lovingly at Liza (again). The tour was great. It is more of a nostalgia type tour than a bottling plant tour. The first was a short 4D movie about ‘what happens’ inside a vending machine. It was similar to the Super Bowl commercial. The most expensive piece of memorabilia in the museum was a Norman Rockwell painting—300 million dollars! Audrey decided after that, she may actually become an artist! |
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They spend a lot of time on the tour promoting the latest slogan—which this year is Coke=Happiness. On the next leg of the tour, we passed through a ‘mini’ bottling facility. In that room you got to see all the machines making the Coke. The kids were most impressed with the computer that scans each glass bottle to see if it has any damage! I liked the robotic arm that carried the bottles to the utility line. Very cool!! |
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Cade has been obsessed with bottle capping the last two months. He actually has a little Coke bottle he keeps refilling and putting new caps on at home repeatedly! He drives me CRAZY with this, so I was very glad when he could see actual bottle caps being put on little Coke bottles in mass quantity! |
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The last room was the kids favorite! You could actually taste Coke products from around the world. It was fun for all, but especially for Audrey, Matt and I who could actually remember being overseas and drinking some of these funky contraptions! |
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Good old Uncle Jon is always there to give my kids a leg up to get ahead—even to grab a Coke from overhead! At the end of the tour we found another art room—someone said—although I did not verify—this couch was on American Idol. Now true or not—I am not telling my kids any different. Not that it mattered to Audrey—if Adam Lambert wasn’t on it...it is not important to her! |
