Once upon a time there were two families who decided to take their kids to the ocean. So they loaded up two rental minivans, met up early in the morning and hit the road. Off they went, south through Illinois which is ridiculously long and took forever and into Kentucky. Many rounds of bingo were played before the two families reached Tennessee and this could be heard in either car "I saw a water tower, back there, I swear" "Dad, can we count that Fed Ex truck as a post office?" "My bingo card sucks" "Haystack, Haystack, I saw it" "BINGO". Even the step mom played Bingo and she loves winning more than the kids because she loves prizes. She got a little plastic penguin right as the families passed through Nashville and in honor of her friend, Eric, she named it Nashvegas.
These two families got hungry and stopped to eat in southeastern Tennessee at Jim Oliver's Smokehouse where this BBQ sauce was on their table. Jim Oliver's also boasted the 'best pork skin this side of grandpa's' as well as fried pie. The concept of fried pie was much more thrilling than the actual taste of fried pie which was a little disappointing.
After arriving late (damn that whole time zone thing, right when we thought we were making good time it was a hour later) in Atlanta, these families got up early the next day to go to the Georgia Aquarium. Here they saw these two beluga whales attempting to start a family of their own much to the shock of many moms with small kids but it was awful entertaining to hear the aquarium staff fumble through an appropriate explanation.
They saw penguins.
They saw rays.
And they saw the whale sharks which is the worlds largest fish and the only whale sharks in captivity in North America. They were amazingly impressive.
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