Fun at the Museum

Maureen mentioned that she wanted to go to the museum to see the California Design Exhibit.  I hopped onto the internet and saw that the exhibition closed today, so we knew we had to head over to view it immediately.  After running our errands at Kmart and Whole Foods, we packed up and headed over to LACMA.  Normally, we'd walk; however, I felt that it might be a good day to drive because it would give us a good chance to use the parking lot elevator.  For those of you who haven't used the elevators in the parking structures, they're pretty cool.  Yes, I'd have to pay for parking (or so I thought); however, the elevators would entertain the boys.

After a bit of lunch at the Plaza Cafe, we headed to the box office to get our tickets.  Our next door neighbor works at LACMA and he was at the box office.  The boys were happy to see him and he was ever so nice to the boys.  We headed over to the Resnick Pavillion to view the exhibit.  The boys weren't exactly excited to see the exhibit, but they did get to enjoy the "Hearphones" and watch industrial films from the fifties and sixties.  It was quite entertaining to see their amazement at the music and sound that they'd hear.  I guess "Hearphones" is a good name for those things.

Also at the Resnick Pavillion, we saw the Children of the Plumed Serpent Exhibit.  That featured artifacts from all sorts of Mexican civilizations like the Mayan and Aztec cultures.  I was able to show John where Merida was on the map.  He didn't seem particularly impressed with the fact that his grandparents were from there.  He was more impressed with the map.  He's going to be a cartographer or navigator in the future.  It is written.  Anywho, I showed him a carved serpent from Chichen Itza that was on loan from some museum somewhere.  I would have told him about the time I went to Chichen Itza as a boy, but he would not have cared.  He just wanted to look at the snakes.

After that, we headed over to the Broad Pavillion to look at Metropolis II.  Actually, we took the really, really, really big elevator up to the third floor to go to the observation level.  We headed out on the patio and could see our building, the Grove, the Beverly Center, the 99 Cents Store on Sixth/Fairfax, the Hollywood Sign, and the observatory.  It was a bit smoggy so the last two were hard to see for the boys, but that third floor gives a great view of the city north of Wilshire.

After viewing Metropolis II, we headed home.  First, I had to go back to the box office to pay for parking, but our super, cool neighbor was kind enough to comp my parking.  I'd say getting free parking at the museum was the cherry on the ice cream sundae of a Saturday afternoon at the museum!