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Reason #93 why I love college: Roadtrips!
My friend Sarah organized a spur of the moment roadtrip up to Atlanta over the long MLK weekend, and so me, her, and 4 other crazy UF students treked the five hours up there to be tourists. It was soooo much fun, and while I had been to Atlanta briefly before (driving through it, getting stuck in it's traffic, and I spent 7 hours in their airport one time after my flight got cancelled), I haven't gotten to explore it. So we rode around on the Marta subway, went to the Coke Museum, played some group DDR at Underground Atlanta, went to the MLK Jr. Museum (being MLK weekend and all) and went to see a traveling Van Gogh exhibit. His Cafe Terrace at Night is so much more vibrant in real life. We also hung out with a bunch of hippies on Saturday during an outdoor bonfire which was really cool, and went to a couple of local restaurants and just hung out in general. One of my friends who went along is an exchange student from Australia, which it was cool to hear all about that country in her thick Australian accent.
And of course, a sampling of pictures:
Group shot
Trying to keep warm (It was REALLY cold)
Coke's advertising apparently works
What happens when a dry Christmas tree is on fire
Atlanta skyline at dusk
In other news, my speakers are crapping out on me, and my headphone earpiece fell off, so I'm left to using my laptop speakers for the time being. But since my scholarship money finall came in, I might be able to afford some new one's finally.
Also this past Friday the Huygens Probe landed on the Saturn moon Titan, making it the furthest any man made object has touched down on another world. Titan is also only one of four solid bodies in the solar system with an atmosphere (the other's are Venus, Earth, and Mars). I thought it was really cool, as we now have upclose pictures of an alien land over a billion miles away for the first time ever. Space is cool.
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