Today we went to the the CNN Center. The building is part CNN-headquarters, part ritzy-hotel, part food court so it was certaintly a diverse experience.
The tour took us through several CNN control rooms, including the room with a projector showing the Anchor between ad-breaks taking instructions from the floor manager, and the teleprompter that he was reading from. My favorite control room was none other than the CNN floor, where the Anchors are recorded live in front of the desks of the support crew, also the same room from which the weather is broadcasted. It's amazing to see such famous people working on live TV from only a couple dozen feet!
We also visited the HLN floor room and the HLN broadcasting room, which had moveable walls and a plethora of mounted cameras and background TVs.
The tour finished up with a video of how reporters and news anchors came about reporting, and then we were let out into the gift shop. Greta and Mom dragged me into doing a mock reporting session in front of a teleprompting camera with a realistic CNN desk behind us. When we were nearly finished, a group of schoolkids walked up to the glass wall and started waving at us as if they thought we were the real thing! Wow, either we were pretty realistic or those kids were really dumb!
After this, we had some lunch and headed for the Coca-Cola Museum. Mom was originally a little but dubious about paying admission into a museum that was pretty much one big advertisement, but after only a few minutes she was confident it was better than the Georgia Aquarium.
After an animation on 'The Happiness Factory' (The 'behind-the-scenes' tour amd the animated movie about how a bottle of Coke comes out of a vending machine.), we walked past man dressed up very convincingly as a polar bear, through several exhibits on the process with which coke is made and the history of the product, and on to the highlight of the visit: the taste-testing room.
This room was where 64 different soft drinks by the Coca-Cola company worldwide are sitting out for free taste testing. Some were incredibly sweet, and some were terrible! The most notable was an Italian drink called Beverly which was absolultely disgusting! It's bitter rotten grapefruit tast pretty much summed up the sensation of gagging, all in one soft drink.
After this, we went through a 4D Multimedia movie about the secret formulat of coke. It was a little too gripping for me, as it had no mercy of shaking, spraying, smacking and poking you while you watched an innocent plotline about Coca-Cola. Mom really liked it, though.
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