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The inside of this temple is SO BIG and SO beautiful. The rooms have the most wonderful murals ever. It is so peaceful inside, I am so happy my grandma met me there. I can't wait to take Chris someday. After we had lunch in the cafeteria we went to the other Getty Museum. It was huge and I was amazed at how different the art at this museum was compared to the other. Time periods, examples, everything.
This bed was so beautiful I had to take a picture. This museum had a lot of furniture in it. Both museums had a kids room, although as I said in the previous post, I probably would not take my kids there, but if you did they would have a lot of fun in the kids' rooms and then you could take turns letting them play in the gardens and someone walking around the breakable stuff, and then switch. Older kids would be good for whatever and really enjoy the kids' room too. Anyhow, back to the kids room, they had a small replica of this bed and a wall next to it full of books. How fun would it be to build a reading spot out of this?!
This is the garden, the museum is on top of a big hill and you ride a tram up to it from the parking lot. Kind of fun.I really wish I could have taken a picture of the special exhibit they had on hand. It was the epitome of the type of art that Chris makes fun of and just doesn't understand. I decided it is my least favorite art as well. modern art. there was Pacific Time Zone display of art that they felt showed popular art in California over the last however long...few decades? There were the canvas paintings that were completely white...except for one red or black line running across it. There was a HUGE piece of plastic in the shape of a giant coin. Maybe 6 or 12 inches thick and 6 feet tall or so...one color. kinda cool looking, but it didn't really tell me about history, or serve a purpose. We had just spent 2 days reading about art and why it was made, who it represented or what purpose it served. But modern art just had the artists name and maybe the year it was made and what medium was used. I didn't really feel like sitting and trying to figure out if it evoked certain feelings out of me or not. :) It was cool to see, but we moved pretty quickly through that exhibit. It just didn't impress me as much.
I had to part ways with my grandma late that afternoon and I am SO GLAD she was able to hang out with me for two days. I loved it.
I DID NOT LOVE the traffic I hit going home. What I thought was 1 1/2 hours of bad traffic that morning was quickly turning into 2+ hours on the way back. Thankfully Chris had his own car too and he met me on my side of town to return my rental car and took me to a restaurant he and his coworkers frequent when they go to LA.
Wednesday night?
I don't have many pictures from the next few days, but Chris has a bunch from the Aquarium that we saw on the last full day on his phone, I need to download those.
(see the Queen Mary to our right in the pic?)
There was a shopping center across the street from the convention center where Chris' was going and it was amazingly called THE PIKE. How cool is that?! If you look closely at the signs the all say THE PIKE. the only bad thing was that they didn't have any shirts that said LONG BEACH and THE PIKE. I would have bought it right away. Just so happens, I was born in Long Beach, CA! and well, the PIKE...hello.
This is either from when we were eating dinner, or really close to the spot we had dinner one night. Everything looked so nice by the beach. I asked a fisherman one morning what was at the pretty islands off of shore. He told me they were really ugly once you got there, they were oil digging places and refineries(?). He said he worked on one for a long time, but switched to another company at another and it was much nicer and cleaner. On his days off he slept under the freeway and fished off the dock that I ran to. He seemed like a pretty happy guy though. More about my beach run when I get Chris' phone pics.
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