California Vacation 2002-2003
January 3, 2003
On January 3, we drove to L.A. to see the Getty Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits. First, Elaine waits in line at the Getty. You can walk a mile up a steep hill to the museum from the parking garage, or you wait in line for the tram. We waited in line.
We finally got to the Getty. Here it is.
View of L.A. from the Getty. I think we lucked out with a relatively smog-free day.
The garden at the Getty. The second one is a stream they built that goes through the garden. Each segment sounds different because of different configurations of rocks in the stream bed. The third one shows the labyrinthe in the foreground and the full image of the Getty in the background. The last one is a bank of highly aromatic garlic plants in the Getty garden.
After the Getty, we went to the La Brea Tar Pits. I guess we were into Tar Pits in this vacation. Maybe we were just worried about the world petroleum supply. William had been there numerous times as a child, but Elaine had never been there. (If you don't know this, it was the site of numerous discoveries of prehistoric mammals early in this century - sabre tooth tigers, mastodons and the like). Here's the museum, and us posing near the museum:
Here is one of the tar pits. They have a statue of a mastodon (or maybe a mammoth) getting stuck in the tar. You can see methane bubbles in the surface, and Wilshire Boulevard in the background.
Next door to the tar pits is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. We didn't have time to go into the museum, but we wandered through the sculpture garden. Here are two things we saw (the second is a Rodin, but I don't know what the first is).
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