Friday, December 19, 2008

Atlanta Thrashers and the CNN World Headquarters

Since we were authorized 2 days of travel from Misawa to Langley we decided to take full advantage of it. The night of our Atlanta layover the Thrashers were playing host to the Penguins so we went online and found the best tickets we could find for a reasonable price. Based on the map of the arena I thought we would be about 3 rows back from the glass...but I was wrong.

Can you tell I'm pretty proud of these seats? Right on the glass! High scoring game with the Pens winning by a final score of 6 to 3. The last goal coming on this empty netter from Evgeni Malkin.

The hockey game was a great time made even better by the fact that we were sitting so close to the action.


The next morning we woke up early and headed down from our hotel in the Omni at CNN Center for the Inside CNN tour. CNN gives a great military discount too...free! Unfortunately pictures aren't allowed during the tour but the main area is really something to see. Below is the tour ticket booth and right behind the booth is the start of the worlds largest freestanding escalator.

The escalator takes you up into a 50 foot globe and then it's off on a walk through the studios and learning what all goes on behind the scenes of a 24 hour news network. During the tour we watched Robin Meade from CNNHN as she did her daily podcast and CNN anchor T.J. Holmes live during the Weekend Edition broadcast.

All in all, the tour is worth the time if you're in the area. From here it was on the MARTA and back to the airport for our flight to Newport News.

Next stop Virginia!