Day 2 - Dona Victorina represents the Philippines at Coke EXPEDITION 206 World Bloggers' Conference

Jet-lag got the best of me this morning. I woke up thinking that we would be going to the World of Coke, but I was wrong. It turns out, I was a day ahead of schedule from my itinerary and today was supposed to be a free day for us bloggers to explore the city at our own leisure. I decided to walk around the neighborhood around our hotel, the Georgian Terraces, and explore Atlanta's historic Midtown district.

Braving the uncharacteristic cold weather that has hit the city, I was able to snap up a few interesting photos of our hotel and the beautiful sites surrounding it. But alas, the fact that I forgot to pack with me a proper winter coat, gloves, and scarf cut my morning sight-seeing short as the frigid temperature and extreme wind chill proved too cold for my Manila mettle to withstand.

Atlanta's Midtown: In the Middle of Everything

Midtown Atlanta, or simply Midtown, is the second largest financial district in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, situated between the commercial and financial districts of Downtown and SoNo to the south and the affluent residential and commercial district of Buckhead to the north.

Midtown is known throughout Atlanta as an extremely popular, cosmopolitan, and vibrant area for nightlife. Many of the city's trendy restaurants and bars are located in Midtown. An estimated 52% of all of the city's nightclubs are located in Midtown. This Atlanta district is also home to a large amount of the city's gay bars.

Many celebrities have been spotted making an appearance at nightclubs in Midtown, including Kim Kardashian, Pamela Anderson, Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga, Lauren Conrad, Mario Lopez, Audrina Partridge, Ludacris, T.I., Mindy Hall, Ciara, Pussycat Dolls, and Tiesto.

The district is the epicenter of the city's music and artistic scene that includes the Fox Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Center for Puppetry Arts, and the 14th Street Playhouse.

The Georgian Terrace Hotel is part of the "Fox Theatre District" on the National Register of Historic Places (1986) and is designated as a Landmark Building Exterior (1990) by the City of Atlanta.

Across the corner from the hotel is the 1929 Moorish-styled Fox Theatre.

The hotel was built of butter-colored brick, marble and limestone in the Beaux-Arts style as a Southern interpretation of the Parisian hotel.

The hotel features classical architectural details, such as turreted corners, floor-to-ceiling Palladian-styled windows and wide wrap-around columned terraces.

The hotel is largely unadorned until its cornice line, which is embellished of highly-decorative terracotta.

Aside from the historic Georgian Terraces Hotel, where the delegates of COKE EXPEDITION are billeted, Midtown contains about one-third of the city's high-rises and some of Atlanta's most iconic buildings, such as the Bank of America Plaza, (situated between Midtown and Downtown), AT&T Midtown Center, Atlantic Center, 1180 Peachtree, and Promenade II.