ComicCon countdown: Day Zero!

Yesterday we went to the La Brea Tar Pits museum and the LACMA. The Tar Pits were pretty cool. They were more geared towards little kids of course, but there were some pretty cool fossils, like dire wolves, saber tooth cats, mammoths, and giant sloths. They also had a cool display of birds.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) was far too big for us to see it all in one day, let alone part of an afternoon. We spent most of our time in one building, and most of that time on just one floor. My favorite piece of art was a huge miniature house. It had three stories, and each was full of every detail of a house. A whole corner of the house was ripped open by another smaller house (which had Asian architecture), which looked like it had crashed into the western house. A large parachute was attached to the top of the smaller house.

Another of my favorite pieces of art took up half the bottom floor of the building. It was a gigantic ribbon of rusty iron about 20 feet high that was twisted in loops. We got to walk inside the loops, which were mazelike and slightly claustrophobic. We also saw a number of works by Andy Warhol and one by Jackson Pollok. I was rather too pleased with myself for identifying a painting that we looked at in Dante, and a Bauhaus chair that we looked at in Art History. Oh, and we got to ride in a giant elevator. I’m not at all shallow.

By the time we started down to San Diego it was already traffic-y, but we got to the cousins’ house eventually, only getting slightly lost towards the end.

Last but certainly not least, today is Opening Night!!!! We are going to go downtown at about noon. Check-in starts at 3:00, but we figure the line will have started oh [checks clock, 9:58] three hours ago. Yay! Nerds! Free stuff! Awesomeness!