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Free Museum Day

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Today was free museum day in Los Angeles. We headed to LACMA, as did a lot of other people.

I’ve been to LACMA many times before, but I’ve been busy socializing so I haven’t really paid attention. They do have some really cool original art!
Marc Chagall:

Pablo Picasso:

First Fridays

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It’s First Fridays season at the Natural History Museum again!

They have the Becoming LA exhibit which I was really excited about. Definitely worth checking out.

I think this is the best backdrop a DJ can ask for!

The museum also featured “the Silk Road” which was interesting, I wanna go back and pay more attention to it.

This gave me a flashback to my childhood.

Music For a Better Living @ the Hammer Museum

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It was the last of the Summer Sessions at the Hammer Museum. I am not a huge fan of the Hammer, buy they have some really good exhibits every now and then, like the Graphic Design exhibit earlier in the year, and the current with the work of architect A. Quincy Jones, so maybe I should give it some more cred.

Shanghai Natural History Museum

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The Shanghai Natural History Museum is very awesome and creepy at the same time! Totally worth a visit!

Taiwanese lunch!

Time for a visit to the insect market after lunch, also creepy and awesome at the same time and totally worth a visit!

The sun was still nowhere to be found, but the laundry racks were still visible. On a sunny day all these racks would be full of laundry.

Tons of these bicyclist around the city and I’ve been trying to catch one on camera. One finally came up close and I totally panic and couldn’t get the setting on the camera correct.

Australian food for dinner!
Fresh pineapple from a street vendor as dessert!

The Shanghai Museum

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Today was culture day, we started of at the Shanghai Museum, the museum of ancient Chinese art.

A very old gem. I don’t think I can wrap my head around how old this is. 6000 BC!

Old Chinese money;

Yep, this is a pillow! Tired anyone?

After the Shanghai Museum, we headed over to the Shanghai Sculpture Space. Very cool and artsy, probably where I would spend a lot of time if I lived in Shanghai.

We went to Tianzifang for lunch, small shops in cute alleys.

Mmm, beer lunch!

We popped our heads into Candy Lab. Very cool culinary art, but oh so sweet! Pretty much just sugar, not very tasty.

We went for a stroll along the Bund after lunch.

The view of Pudong;

Spicy Chinese food for dinner!

Poker night with the parents!

First Friday

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A new year means a new set of First Fridays at the Natural History Museum.

Dinosaurs are awesome, the T-Rex always makes me laugh though!

Adamson House

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We started the day with breakfast at Gjelinas and coffee at Intelligentsia in Venice.
We then drove back up the coast to Neptune’s Net to check out the bikers. It was a little on the colder side today so there wasn’t as many bikes as usual.

We stopped by the historic Adamson House on the way home; one of the first houses in Malibu.

Alcatraz

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We woke up bright and early to a sunny San Francisco and headed out to the wharf for breakfast.
After the breakfast we took the shirt ferry ride over to Alcatraz

The Bay Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge
Our destination, Alcatraz!

 Mom and Dad ready for some sightseeing!

I’ve been to Alcatraz before a few years ago, but I think it’s really cool and a little creepy and think it’s worth going every few years.

The audio tour is really interesting and you need at least a couple of hours on the island to be able to see everything.

We came back to the city around noon, just in time for lunch. But we had time to walk by the Sea Lion wharf; apparently they just showed up one day after an earthquake and then just decided to stay.

Lombard Street, a funky steep street in the middle of the city.