Last night we had delicious barbecued hamburgers with Holly, Lary, and Shane, and their friends Kerry, Gary, and Gracie--Chef Lary prepared the BBQ for burgers and turkey burgers, and outdid himself as usual! Holly's back yard is lovely, and we had a good time with wonderful company. Kerry & Gary bought the tent trailer from Liz, and said they are throughly enjoying their camping adventures in it.
Thursday, Holly, Shane, Liz, and I headed into downtown LA (thank goodness Holly was driving!) to visit the la Brea Tar Pits, where Shane could pick up some special extra credit for his biology class if he went to the museum and learned some interesting facts. It was a beautiful, warm day, and we saw the bubbling pits (from methane and sulfide gases), and outside displays, as well as the inside museum. The outside display includes an open oily asphalt basin with water covering the surface, much as it may have looked ten thousand years ago, and they have added realistic sculptures of animals struggling to free themselves from the sticky tar.
Adjacent to the Tar Pits is the Los Angeles Modern Art Museum, which we didn't have time to go inside, but did walk around enjoying the outside sculptures:
fterwards, we lunched at the museum square at Johnnys of New York--a great place where Shane ordered a cheese pizza with extra mozzarella! He took most of it with him...
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