I woke up pretty early on Thursday (day 2) in HOTLANTA! I dropped off my stuff at my lodgings during the convention and then grabbed some breakfast to go to Five Points to grab the #16 bus to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center.
The actual bus ride was only 15-20 minutes and they conveniently drop you off and pick you up right by the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center too. I found it very usual. I made right before they were opening the doors at 9am (needed to make an early start as I wanted to go to MLK Historic District, buy a new suitcase and get ready for a meeting at 5pm back in Downtown Atlanta).
The musuem has a short film that runs very half hour (roughly 25 minutes) and the first showtime was 9:30am. I got to read the wall of US Presidents in the 20th century. Then you got to a main area and walk around looking at photos, mementos, artificats etc. I did not know that Jimmy Carter went to the Naval Academy. Plus there were more other tidbits discovered while walking around. The tense situation when he had Begin and Sadat back at Camp David using his people skills to have peace in the Middle East.
There is a replica of his Oval Office in the White House, a table setting of what an event held at the White House would be like and many photos abounded in the exhibit. I liked the exhibit at the end showing what Jimmy Carter has done after his Presidency with all his health and humanitarian work, it is no wonder he was nominated and won a Nobel Peace Prize, another famouse Atlanta native who won was Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK).
I liked the fact I was there on a Thursday morning and there were no big crowds and I finished everything within 2 hours.
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