Like many families, we are a family of huge football fans. Every year we try to figure out how to take the kids as affordably as possible to see an NFL game and a few college games. Making it affordable is tough. One of the best things we did was when we turned going to see a Falcons game into a mini vacation over a long weekend.
My husband found very reasonable, albeit nose bleed, tickets from RazorGator. I researched a few fun outings in Atlanta. Atlanta is a great city to visit with tons of fun for kids. I was dying to visit the Georgia Aquarium, so that was first on my list. My brother-in-law also suggested the World of Coca-Cola, I found a great city park and finally no visit would have been complete without a visit to The Varsity.
We had a great weekend. We left right after school on Friday and drove through to my brother in law’s house on the outskirts of Atlanta. Saturday morning we got up and had early brunch at The Varsity. My kids loved it. Open since 1928, it’s the world’s largest drive-in restaurant. We then headed over to the World of Coca-Cola and spent about an hour there. The tasting of 60 different Coke products at the end was great. We then headed over to the Georgia Aquarium, it was just as amazing as I knew it would be. The Asian otters and beluga whales were so fun to watch. There is also a 100-foot-long acrylic tunnel you can walk through with huge whale sharks and Nanta, the only manta ray in an aquarium in the U.S. It was the highlight of the weekend for me.
The following morning, the weather was beautiful and we headed out to a beautiful downtown park before the game decked out in all of our Falcon gear. The pre-game celebration outside the Georgia Dome was tons of fun. When we entered the stadium and climbed higher and higher into the stands, my son turned to my husband and said, “Sweet! Dad, how’d you get the seats all the way in the top?” We had a great time…
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