Healthy Life Choices GA

Explore the history of the city at the Atlanta History Center. The museum features rotating and traveling exhibits, and houses six permanent exhibits that showcase relevant points in Atlanta history. Events and time periods spotlighted include the city's expansion from a rural area to a metropolis, the Civil Rights Movement in the city, and the city during the Civil War. The Atlanta History Center boasts one of the largest collections of Civil War artifacts in the world. This museum and attraction also has historic homes and gardens on its grounds, and has been teaching the public about Atlanta's history since 1926.

Check out one of nature's odd attractions at Panola Mountain State Park. The park was created in an effort to preserve a 100-acre granite monadnock, or mountain. In all, this state park occupies 1,635 acres and is home to a visitor center, a playground, two fishing lakes, an archery range, and plenty of opportunities for hiking and biking in the great outdoors.

Join in the celebration of Caribbean culture at the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival. Bright costumes, music and parades are a large part of this festival, along with Caribbean food, arts and crafts, and other live entertainment. The festival is celebrated right before Lent, and is somewhat of a "last hurrah" before the observation of the Catholic tradition.

Wash down some seafood down with a tasty drink from the bar at Six Feet Under Pub & Fish House. The menu at this restaurant and bar seems never ending, listing items like gator bites, crab cakes, oysters, fried fish and shrimp, and lots more. If you like to mix your alcohol with your food - literally - try some oyster shooters off the pub's spirits menu. Vodka and oysters not your thing? Don't worry, the drink menu is just as vast as the food menu and the talented bartenders are sure to know how to make you're favorite cocktail.