Today, Pete and I took the MARTA bus from the end of our street (my first time on Atlanta public transport!)) down to Midtown, where our destination was the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The USA has 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and this is one of them, where millions of dollars get processed in and out every day! The bank has a newly renovated free Monetary Museum which might sound boring, but was surprisingly fascinating. We even got to watch the money being moved around and processed, behind bullet-proof glass of course! Sadly, no cameras were allowed inside for security reasons. We also went past another famous Atlanta landmark, the home of the author Margaret Mitchell, when she wrote Gone With the Wind. It was another successful day exploring the city.
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