La Brea Car Trip
Our trip home went much better than expected! We made plans to visit my brother, Adam, and his wife Erin on the way because we figured the boys would love a long break from the car trip, and ever since Adam suggested taking us to see the La Brea Tar Pits they've been way excited to see them. On the drive down, Joshua asked when we'd get there.
"It might be as little as an hour and a half if we skip lunch. If we stop for lunch, then it will probably be two and a half hours," I replied.
"Let's skip lunch" Joshua suggested. Daniel chimed in: "Skip lunch!"
Not only did the boys help us get there faster by voluntarily skipping lunch, they were unusually quiet and well behaved, even for them (and they have normally been unusually quiet and well behaved for little boys on long car trips). I think part of it was anticipating what they might see at the tar pits.
It was great to see Adam and Erin again, and they took us on a tour of the tar pits:
We saw the large pit that looks like an oily pond (with tar just under the surface to trap any foolish enough to bathe in foul-smelling oily water):
They even have some statues of Mammoths, with the mother apparently stuck in the tar:
Note the baby mammoth screaming for its mother (click on the picture to see a large version). Let's hope the boys didn't recognize the emotional pain embodied in this dramatization. At least they found a less depressing statue they were able to check out, a giant sloth:
It was a pretty neat experience. We got to see a tar pit bubbling away (Daniel: "It's like a fountain!"), a couple of places where tar had freshly bubbled out of the ground and we could poke it with sticks, and even where it had seeped up between cracks in the sidewalk (corner of Wilshire and S Curson). The tar was everything I told the boys it would be ("hot, sticky, and smelly"). Afterwards, Adam and Erin got us into the new Construction Exhibit in the LA County Museum of Art Children's Gallery.
The boys loved it. Joshua mainly enjoyed doing some art projects:
Daniel learned about construction safety while building with blocks:
After the construction exhibit, we parted ways with Adam and Erin and continued home. We arrived home later than usual, but we had a great time. Thanks you guys!
"It might be as little as an hour and a half if we skip lunch. If we stop for lunch, then it will probably be two and a half hours," I replied.
"Let's skip lunch" Joshua suggested. Daniel chimed in: "Skip lunch!"
Not only did the boys help us get there faster by voluntarily skipping lunch, they were unusually quiet and well behaved, even for them (and they have normally been unusually quiet and well behaved for little boys on long car trips). I think part of it was anticipating what they might see at the tar pits.
It was great to see Adam and Erin again, and they took us on a tour of the tar pits:
We saw the large pit that looks like an oily pond (with tar just under the surface to trap any foolish enough to bathe in foul-smelling oily water):
They even have some statues of Mammoths, with the mother apparently stuck in the tar:
Note the baby mammoth screaming for its mother (click on the picture to see a large version). Let's hope the boys didn't recognize the emotional pain embodied in this dramatization. At least they found a less depressing statue they were able to check out, a giant sloth:
It was a pretty neat experience. We got to see a tar pit bubbling away (Daniel: "It's like a fountain!"), a couple of places where tar had freshly bubbled out of the ground and we could poke it with sticks, and even where it had seeped up between cracks in the sidewalk (corner of Wilshire and S Curson). The tar was everything I told the boys it would be ("hot, sticky, and smelly"). Afterwards, Adam and Erin got us into the new Construction Exhibit in the LA County Museum of Art Children's Gallery.
The boys loved it. Joshua mainly enjoyed doing some art projects:
Daniel learned about construction safety while building with blocks:
After the construction exhibit, we parted ways with Adam and Erin and continued home. We arrived home later than usual, but we had a great time. Thanks you guys!
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