Day 21

Finally, I'm almost caught up. Fell way behind for a bit there, but if you've been reading the blog regularly, you'll see that we've been pretty busy, and it does take a little while to write these things up, so forgive me for falling behind, but we're almost caught up now. Anyway, it's Friday the 14th! Oh wait, I guess that doesn't mean anything does it. Maybe I should start my own parody horror franchise called Friday the 14th....ehhhh....maybe not.

Anyway, Friday found us at a bit of a loss for what to do. We've now been in the Los Angeles area for 2 weeks, and we've done a lot. As you may recall, I'm not really out here for a vacation, but since Krysta basically is, we've had to maintain a delicate balance between a business and leisure trip. We've hit a lot of the major sites, but there's gotta be more to do in a huge city like LA right? Well we headed over to good ol TripAdvisor.com for guidance. Griffith Observatory, check. Getty Museum, check. Venice Canals, check. Runyon Canyon.....wish I could check, but Mr. Left Foot doesn't want to deal with that. Natural History Museum, no check.... Hmmm..... hey, why not, Natural History Museum it is.

I'll be honest, I've never been a huge fan of museums haha. But this place actually was pretty good. It was in an area called "Exhibition Park" (I think anyway...) which also houses USC's football stadium, but alas Pete Carroll was not to be found, oh yeah he's in Seattle now. So we went in to the museum and looked around for a few hours at the various exhibits. The main lobby had exhibits on either side, of mammals from Africa and North America, I don't know if they were just fake, or if they were stuffed dead animals, honestly couldn't tell, can you?

oh yeah, I shaved the goatee last night, hair's probably gonna go soon as well....

somebody get their hands on Mr. White's product??

There was a whole exhibit dedicated to gemstones and minerals, pretty cool, no doubt Hank Schrader would have enjoyed it.....We walked through this room that was completely dedicated to this gigantic whale skeleton. Apparently the skeleton itself weighs 7,000 lbs, can't imagine how much the whole whale must have weighed.

What I enjoyed the most about this place was the dinosaur stuff. There were a lot of skeletons set up in the museum, with lots of information on how those dinos might have lived and what they did and stuff. Unfortunately, most of the bones were actually recreations of the fossils, so they were primarily copies of dino skeletons I guess.

that's actually a vertebrae from a "long neck" thing was about as big as I am  

yeah the mini-ponytail's not really working, gotta get rid of that...

We walked around a little more, went upstairs to a big bird exhibit that pretty much occupied the entire floor.

After visiting the museum for a few hours, we headed back to Glendale, I tried very hard to get a few days worth of blogging done, did some more stuff related to job searching, etc. fairly uneventful evening. Just want to leave you with one of the more disturbing images from the museum....

Good Lord what is that thing