This past weekend, we took a short trip down to Atlanta to visit the Georgia Aquarium, which had just opened last November. The drive took almost 7-hours, though it was hardly monotonous when we got caught in a rainstorm so heavy we had to pull over to the emergency lane. The aquarium itself was quite impressive. Today the largest aquarium in the world, it features a variety of petting ponds, tide pools, and an enormous deep ocean tank housing the only whale sharks in captivity outside Asia. For lunch, we ventured into Sweet Auburn for some oh-so-delicious barbeque ribs and pork neck bones at Thelma’s Kitchen. Mmmmm… how I can still savor the taste of juicy pig on my tongue. =P After the meal, we toured the World of Coca-Cola and the CNN Studio Headquarters, both of which were essentially hour-long advertising campaigns we had to pay for. We spent the late afternoon at the Martin Luther King memorial park and Underground Atlanta, a historic district of old Atlanta which became sealed off from the surface with the construction of viaducts in the 20’s to accommodate automobile traffic. Today, it has evolved into a garishly ghetto shopping mall. We drove back up on Sunday, but stopped along the way for clothes shopping at an outlet mall, some locally-grown peaches and strawberries from a fruit stand, and a new toy from a monstrous flea market. Back now at Research Triangle Park, I hope my second week here will be a bit more productive. Anyway, I hope y’all secular heathens enjoy the day of the devil. I hear there’re gonna party like there’s no tomorrow in Hell.