We are staying in the magnificent Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel. They have a huge atrium with elevators that give you a spectacular view as you go up to your room. For a guy who is not crazy about heights (like me) this is not always so wonderful.
Then it was off to SunTrust Park to see the Pirates play the Atlanta Braves. This is the inaugural season for the stadium. It is lovely as you would expect. Most appealing to me was that I didn’t see one beach ball the entire game. We had great seats and the Pirates won easily. That makes us 3-0 this trip which is a welcome change from some of our previous adventures.
Since the game started early we had time to do some sight-seeing after it ended. I wanted to see the College Football Hall of Fame, sort of a continuation of our Hall of Fame Tour of 2013. Patrice wanted go to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library (we had already seen the libraries for JFK, LBJ and Ronald Reagan). I told her, I am the man and I make the decisions of what is best to do.
Jimmy Carter was our 39th President. The construction of the library began in October 1984 and was completed in 2 years. The landscape encompasses 35 acres (as you know there are 43,560 square feet per acre). The library is approximately 69,750 square feet and includes 15,269 square feet of exhibit space and an additional 19,818 square feet of collection storage space. We first viewed a 15 minute film about Mr. Carter and then toured the museum with what little time we had left. An announcement was made that the museum was now closed and we needed to exit the building. As we started to walk out one of the guards said, “That’s the Nobel Prize”. We stopped and looked at it and were very impressed that he got that in 2002 twenty-one years after leaving office. Not a bad encore.
Tomorrow we leave for home. It has been a great trip but now it is time to get back to reality. That means, PLANNING OUR NEXT VACATION!
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