On our 2008 trip we stopped here to get just a little taste of this stupendous museum. This trip we want to see more. We camped just a ten minute drive away and came in this afternoon to begin the adventure. We browsed a bit in the Siebel Dinosaur Complex learning more about the origins of life, gazing at some stupendous dinosaur fossils, and watching paleontologists at work in the lab. We took in the 4PM Taylor Planetarium show, Lamps of Atlantis about the night sky over Atlantis 3,600 years ago. Then we spent some time in the temporary exhibit, The Villas of Oplontis gazing at frescoes and other 2000 year old fragments of a villa near Pompeii. A quick trip to the gift shop and we have a cool video to watch tonight about the largest dinosaur ever discovered. Time now to head east a few miles to Bear Canyon Campground to fix dinner and rest up for tomorrows adventures here!
Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.
0 Comments