So we definitely had a great trip to Atlanta this past weekend. I’m a bit late in posting about it, but I’ve been busy with work and shit. In any case, it went down a little like this….
We both left work early on Friday afternoon and went to AAA to get our Six Flags tickets. They were $31 for AAA members instead of the normal $49 at the park, which is a killer deal. We drove down to Atlanta and checked into our hotel, which was the Crowne Plaza in Buckhead. We ended up getting a killer deal on THAT too, thanks to hotwire.com! The hotel ended up being pretty nice, but we weren’t too concerned with it knowing that we wouldn’t be spending much time there. We left the hotel and went to the Target a little bit past the hotel to pick up a couple of things we needed and then came back to the room and changed clothes. Then we took the MARTA to the midtown area and ate at what has become one of our favorite restaurants down there, the Vortex. We both ate kickass burgers and had a few drinks… ended up a bit tipsy and had to walk back to the MARTA station and take the train back to the hotel. Quite interesting when you’ve been drinking, for sure.
We woke up Saturday morning and spent the entire day at Six Flags…. It was lots of fun, don’t get me wrong but I fucking HATE waiting in line. It’s basically an hour or more in line at every ride for 45 seconds (at most) of fun. I love riding roller coasters and I love thrill rides in general, but I just hate waiting that insane amount of time. Six Flags does offer what’s known as a “Flash Pass” that you can pay $80 for and get right through to the front of the line. We didn’t want to pay the extra money this time but if we ever go back, I think we’ll do it. I really hate lines THAT much. Six Flags has some decent coasters, to be honest. Not the best in the world, but still lots of fun. “Goliath” was pretty damn cool despite not going upside down. The Georgia Scorcher is their stand-up coaster, which is sorta fun but actually pretty uncomfortable because they have sort of a bicycle seat under your ass. Then when you go through the loops and the g-force pulls you down it shoves you agains the seat and all your weight goes on your balls. Not cool! My favorite rides are still Superman and Batman, amusingly. Batman is a bit smoother and you can actually SEE. Superman is awesome except my damn hair kept getting in my way! It’s too long, but I like it long so I’ll be damned if I’m going to cut it on account of some ride. Next time I’ll just stick it in a ponytail. In any case, we had a really good time except for being just absolutely worn the fuck out after 10 hours at the park. We pretty much went back to the hotel and crashed hard. I managed to stay up long enough to take a shower, but the girlfriend had to take one in the morning.
Sunday morning we finally got out shit packed and were out of the room by 11-ish. We ate at Johnny Rockets in Buckhead shortly thereafter. We spent the day dicking around in downtown Atlanta, went to the New World of Coke and ate at the Hard Rock Cafe. The New World of Coke was pretty fucking kickass. Hard Rock Cafe was of course overpriced and not all that great. The atmosphere was cool, but $71 for two people to eat is fucking absurd. $23 for a steak that tasted worse than what I can cook with my eyes closed… Yeah, I can honestly say there’s absolutely no good reason to ever eat there again. I’ve eaten there before but it’s been a LONG time and I don’t remember it being THAT expensive. In any case, the only thing worth getting there is the dessert and splitting it (which is what we did in Nashville). In any case, after dicking off all day in Atlanta, we finally left and came home… got home about 12:30 and then I came to work. Fun shit. I can’t wait to go out of town again. 
