Beautiful weekend, just had to get out of the house. We have never been to the new Georgia Aquarium, and even got free admission for Christmas, but way too many folks had the same idea, checked online, all booked up for Saturday. So we headed north to Chattanooga, which is closer than Atlanta and a lot less crowded. We visited the Tennessee Aquarium - we had been there before and always enjoyed it, and now they have added another building.
We then drove to nearby Raccoon Mountain, a TVA project on the Tennessee River. We had a nice visit with the couple who volunteer at the visitor center at Raccoon Mountain, both retired from TVA. We learned all about the making of hydroelectric power at this facility. They apologized for not being able to take us down the 1000' elevator to see the actual power plant deep under the mountain, but since 911 that tour has been closed. Did some hiking and caching.
