Georgia Aquarium

Both my husband and I had the privilege of holding annual passes to Disneyland when we were young. Besides the obvious benefit of getting to go a ton of times, having an annual pass also allows for a different quality of visit: the visit can just be for a couple of hours, and you don't have to run around seeing absolutely everything. We decided that we should get an annual pass to something during our first year in Atlanta. We went for the Georgia Aquarium - world's largest. Just like the airport. 

Blue aquarium, next to Olympic Centennial Park
and World of Coke

We will probably get to know these fish very well. Daisy asks to go almost every day, but I'll try to ration her to once a week.

Daisy's favorite "aminals" are the penguins. There's a special crawl tunnel to their perch, which is actually more fun than what my picture makes it look like:

 It's a research aquarium and apparently well-funded. They have whale sharks, manta rays, and groupers in this room. We got to see these divers who were taking some sort of measurements, and they also had microphones hooked up so that we could hear them speak (pause - gasp - speak) from the tank. Gimmicky to me, but awesome to a three-year-old.

If you come visit us this year, we'll take you here with us! A cool option for pass-holders here is getting an annual rotating guest pass. The way they said it to me was, "You can take your husband one day, your mom the next day." Sold.