All sorts of fun

My plans for today got messed up which is sad - Valerie and I were supposed to go to the Skirball to see the Noah's Ark exhibit. But we need reservations, even though my aunt and uncle donate money. Oh well. So we got back and ordered tickets for next week - which means next sunday we'll get to play with animals - yay!

Yesterday I went down to San Diego for the day to see my college advisor. She was in town for a Dickinson alum event at the SD Museum of Natural History. She was guiding the tour on the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. I figured driving 2 hours to see her here was easier than 3 1/2 hours back east. There ended up being a ridiculous amt of traffic and it took 4 hours to get there - which meant that i missed lunch...all of the LA people were late. I got to see 2 people who I graduated with - Matt and Lina. Matt is teaching north of LA - lina is in grad school and preggers. Matt brought his dad who I had met before. Lina was there with friends. It was fun to see them for awhile. Matt is the same only dork he's always been :) I got to spend the evening with Andrea - dickinson was kind enough to take us out to a nice seafood dinner in downtown San Diego. It was fun to talk to her about Dickinson as a professional - in terms of their strategic plan, budget, and educational objectives. I think she enjoyed hearing what i've been studying.

Last week for the Wednesday adventure Lev and I went to the LA Public Library. We had expected to take a short tour and then be on our way. It ended up being an AMAZING tour which we got stretched into a little over an hour. THe docent was one of the best I've ever had - an old lady from NY. She told us very important things:
The steps leading into the library start at nothing, just ideas. Then there are symbols and eventually words and different types of fonts - the evolution of it, you may say. Brave New World was written in that library. Huck Finn was the first book written on a typewriter.
It's a truly gorgeous building - they have a huge international language section, kids areas, and lots of computers. They clearly put a lot of thought into what money they had and how to use it.

We had expected to do other things but ended up running out of time. So we went to the farmers market that is just outside of the library...we had purused it before we went into the library and got some samples to hold us over. And then figured it was time for lunch so we got kabobs. Yum! And I got kettle corn which i just friggin love.

this week we're going to go back to the downtown area to see the places we didnt get to ... hopefully ill get a chance to write about that. This next week and a half is CRAZY filled with tons of work and packing and saying goodbye (ha, like I really do that)