After a Winnie the Pooh blustery night and morning, we
journeyed into downtown Atlanta for our Inside CNN Studio Tour, which is a
55-minute walking tour that descends 8 flights of stairs.
Our tour guide, we
learned, is from Syracuse, his family lives in the Sedgwick area and he is a
graduate of Syracuse University. He happens to be flying to D.C. tomorrow to be
at the S.U. vs. Georgetown – GO ORANGEMEN!
We ascended the world’s largest free-standing escalator, riding upwards eight stories to have a behind –the-scenes glimpse into the news and broadcasting of CNN and HLN news bureaus.
We saw and
heard live production being prepared and broadcast from the studios, and
learned how live feeds are received into our homes with immediacy.
After our tour we visited Underground Atlanta,
that covers six city blocks of shopping and restaurants. Underground Atlanta is
a preserved area once a railroad depot that still shows original storefronts, marble,
granite archways, cast iron pilasters, brickwork, and hand-carved wood posts that
survived the Civil War and many reconstructions of the area.
After working up an appetite we headed to Cumberland and our very favorite restaurant, P.F. Chang’s, where we relaxed and enjoyed a delicious lunch and planned our tomorrow.
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