Natural History Museum, Los Angeles | February 2017

Matthew and I took a trip to the amazing Natural History Museum down in Los Angeles, in Exposition Park. I highly recommend it--there are SO many things to see, we didn't even get to explore the whole museum! Here are some photos of some of the things that caught my eye... Great photo ops! There's also a cameo in the adventure video. And, of course, some music for your audio pleasure. Enjoy <3

Just some personal adventures through Winter 2017. Includes: NYE! Cirque du Soleil! LACMA for free museum day! The Natural History Museum! And more shenanigans. :) Sound: Mini remix of Some Lovin' by Lenno

GEMS ||

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: A HISTORY ||

(Yes, that's Walt Disney's drafting table!!)

DIORAMAS ||

BIRD ZONE ||

This area is long overdue for an update... but part of me hopes the museum leaves it in the 80s forever-r-r. Isn't that what a museum does, though? Show you bits of the past? ;)

MISCELLANY ||

All in all, I highly recommend a visit or two. There's so much to see, learn, and do. And the cafe ain't so bad, either! :) SCIENCE!

January 2017 in Review | NYE, LACMA, etc.

Wow! So, it's already the end of August. Kids are in school already. And I'm juuuust now posting January 2017. Such is life. Here's the earliest of the year's adventures, all rolled into one nice package :)

And, since I'm tired of the Fall/Winter 2016 playlist, here's Spring 2017! Spring came early for you guys. :)

NEW YEAR'S EVE

Alright, real talk, NYE had some crazy events and was pretty intense in terms of meta, philosophical thoughts. Witnessed a homeless man intentionally cage himself in (homelessness is its own kind of prison!), and then a pigeon egg fell from the heavens (ok, metro station rafters). #miracleofbirth. Matthew tried to take it home and incubate it, but it never hatched. The pigeon probably dumped it on purpose, 'cas she knew it was a bad egg.

LACMA

Museums are always fun! Especially when there's interactive art. #spaghettiforever

When you find a painting of yourself, made in the 1800s...! I had to do some hella double-take. So cool! This lady's essence = me. So good!

I find these truths (opinions) to be self-evident:

Word.

IPHONE RANDOMS

Kittens, hikes, Cirque du Solil... some nice goodies:

Yes, I had the Pokemon Go frap. And yes, it was delicious. #endscene

San Fran Holiday Road Trip || December 2016

Yaaaaaaas! Matthew and I got to take another holiday trip up to San Francisco for a visit. We drove up on a dry day following a TON of rain (and snow), so going up the 5 was absolutely gorgeous. Somewhat sadly, the majority of the photos I took are of the drive up... We spent the first day on a 20+ mile run through the city, so I didn't have my camera for that entire portion, and my phone died because I didn't bring my mobile charger, but I got a few images here and there otherwise. All in all, this trip was a complete 180 from our last trip. It was sunny the whole time, and we took public transit everywhere instead of driving. It was a great way to experience the ginormous city. <3

Per the usual, here's the adventure video and that Fall/Winter playlist for the laaaaast time!

**DISCLAIMER!!!** Sorry about the slow load times on this one. I accidentally used the full-size files instead of the blog-resized files for about the first half of the show here.... whoops. <3

Yet another amazing adventure for the books! Matthew and I made the trek up to San Francisco for the holidays. As you can see... Most of my footage is of the drive up (or down), with little going on around town it feels like... ha! Didn't bring my camera along on the 20+ mile run around town we took the first day... Managed to bring it along a little bit the second and third days... Anyway! I love SF, and can't wait to visit again. This trip was a total 180 from the last time we went up there. I highly recommend the Zephyr hotel, suuuupa cute and hipster. Plus, a wax Leo DiCaprio. That is all. :)

HEADING UP THE 5

#BLUETOOTH

WHEN THE CAR STEREO CAN'T PLAY YOUR MUSIC... YOU GET CREATIVE.

^ I also got creative with the multi-expo function in my camera. While it doesn't work quite like my Nikon does, it's still fun to play with. :)

Brace yourselves... miles and miles and miles of winter are coming. ;)

ARRIVAL

Alright, well road trips are very exhausting, so not much in this section, but I saved some goodies for days 1 + 2!

DAY 1

Alright, well full day 1 is kind of sparse, Matthew and I took a 20+-mile run through the city, without my camera, and without a spare battery for my phone (oops. Pokemon Go killed it). Here's some smackerels anyway, starting with some hotel details:

DAY 2

Welp, aside from getting suuuuper ill from eating too much ice cream (I didn't know I was lactose until about an hour after... I never really thought much of the discomfort in the past, but I never really ate that much dairy before, so... yeah. Not fun.), day 2 was a quaint adventure on the subways and buses and trains/trolleys through town from where we were staying at Pier 39 over to Haight-Ashbury to do the standard tourist thang. We ended up finding a restaurant called "Sparrow" that was equal parts hipster and adorable and delicious.