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A really genuine American place in my eyes...

Me and Andrew there...

After that we drove around a lot and saw a lot of the Alabama countryside and drove through some small towns. We also stopped in Ashville, but everything on the (not so impressive or big) main street were closed...

The main street of Ashville, Alabama (and I did get it all in the picture)

A lawyers office that looked so cute! :-)

Roadtrip II - Atlanta, Georgia

On Sunday we went for a much longer road trip to Atlanta, which is around 3 hours drive from Birmingham. But the drive was a lot of fun too, so it wasn't a problem, and I was lucky not needing to drive! :-) And on the way there we stopped at the Waffle house, which is a great breakfast place with just about everything (not just waffles). Mahsa: try it if they have it up there!

The driver! ;-)

Me at waffle house

When we arrived in Atlanta our first stop was "the world of Coke", which is a museum of Coca Cola. After that we walked through the olympic park and walked around in Atlanta for a while, with a stop at Starbucks because I was getting really hungry...

The world of coke! A good museum, and the best part was the tastings in the end. You could test drinks from the Coca Cola company all over the world, some were good and some were really disguisting... But always interesting to try! :-)

At the entrance to the museum

In the olympic park!

View over Atlanta

A tired Maria at Starbucks!

We ended the visit with me joining Andrew for a mass in a catholic church there and it was very interesting, especially the fact that it was really so similar to going to church back home! The order of almost everything was the same and the way everything was done. It made me wonder even more what the big deal of all the different churches over here is. To quote Tien: They all love Jesus and the Bible, what's the big deal.

On the way home we made a stop at Taco Bell, since Andrew had told me how amazing it is, and apparently it's one of Doug's favourite places too... It was good and very cheap, like 7 dollars (45 SEK) for a meal, fast food is so cheap down here. But I was not that impressed, not as good as the Swedish taco! ;-) (But Mahsa - you should give it a try, and I had number 6 with one of each, that was good.) Made a mistake though when Andrew asked me to fill up drinks for us, apparently they have ice in these drink mashines over here, missed that! Americans are so crazy about their ice... :-)

Taco bell - Andrew wanted to take the picture to show Doug he took me to this amazing place! ;-)