La Brea Tar Pits

We took the kids to see the La Brea Tar Pits today. They are natural tar pits in Los Angeles where many prehistoric animal fossils were found. We saw the actual tar pits and actual skeletal fossils of Mammoths, giant sloths, sabertooth tigers and various other animals. There was a giant 12 foot mammoth that was our favorite. Mickey was in one of his moods where he did not want to stay with us, hold my hand or cooperate in anyway. There was a private birthday party going that was something we couldn’t believe. It was a kids party done in a circus theme with real performers, an actual elephant and tons of bounce houses and carnival games. It was opulent and in my opinion ridiculous. Um, don’t people in L.A. go to Chuckie Cheese’s? The hard part was it was gated off and Mickey couldn’t understand why there was 100 kids in there and he wasn’t one of them. We stood 10 feet away from the elephant with him crying and shouting, “Go see elephant!” Finally we told him we had to go buy a ticket and persuaded him to go into the museum. Once inside he was so distracted he forgot about the live elephant and decedant birthday party. He did a good job holding my hand for the most part until we came to a robotic wooly mammoth. Just as he was about to slip under the security rope, the mammoth snarled and Mickey jumped up and ran to hide behind my leg. From that point on he stayed very close to me! After the museum we drove up the street so Zeus could see where they film Hell’s Kitchen and so I could for once and all prove to him it is a studio and not a real resteraunt. I have never seen him so star struck! We rode Pirates of the Carribean with Candace Cameron and he didn’t care. He worked out just feet away from Jose Canseco and didn’t care. He ordered a Subway Sandwhich behind Kelly Cuoco, again nothing. However, the empty lot and building where Hell’s Kitchen is filmed did it for him. Afterwards we drove down Hollywood Blvd. to see Manns Chinese Theatre and the Hollywood stars. Mickey enjoyed seeing all the characters standing on the street. (various people dressed in costumes) We saw Elmo, Dora, Spiderman, Mickey Mouse, Superman, Batman, Optimus Prime (transformers) and Marilyn Monroe just to name a few. Meanwhile Minnie was taking a nap.  That rapped up our day in L.A.