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What a difference a day makes. Today LA was... Great? Surprising? Amazing? All three?
Yes!
And more! The day started with a hike up Runyon Canyon with the dog and the kid, both game for a pretty hard climb up to a vista that overlooked the entire LA basin, with the Hollywood sign looming in the distance and the smog hovering over everything. It was, truth be told, glorious. And while we almost got lost on the walk back, and somehow managed to find actual horses on the side of a cliff in the middle of LA, every held up pretty well. Roosevelt actually walked the entire way, and wanted to do more. But we had to move on to...
LACMA. The LA County Museum of Art which has in its newly opened BCMA wing (people seriously need to tone down the acronyms around here), hands down, the most mind-blowing collection of big-name contemporary artists I've ever seen. It was visually exhausting, taking in so much in such a short amount of time. From a giant Koons balloon sculpture, to a Hirst sheep, to Therrien’s giant table and chairs. It was unbelievable.
Then you step outside and you're in the surreal landscape of the La Brea Tar Pits, which you've read about in school or if you were a dinosaur nut when you were a kid but you never really understood: These are STILL pits of tar. Who knew? Not me! And it's everywhere. You have to watch where you step in the grass because suddenly they'll be a little fissure of tar bubbling up. There are tiny fences all over the parkland cordoning off these little tar patches. It's truly bizarre.
After a little downtime we headed to LA's Chinatown (as seen in the movie, well, Chinatown) which was equally as surreal since many of the buildings have been converted into hip little art galleries while retaining their old-Chinatown fronts. Dinner with friends followed, followed by a dog parade to a local dog park for some late-night running around.
For a city that seems to embrace its stereotypes on many levels, it's also a place that seems to have surprises hiding under its surface. Might I suggest a new ad campaign for the city:
LA: Who Knew?
What a difference a day makes. Today LA was... Great? Surprising? Amazing? All three?
Yes!
And more! The day started with a hike up Runyon Canyon with the dog and the kid, both game for a pretty hard climb up to a vista that overlooked the entire LA basin, with the Hollywood sign looming in the distance and the smog hovering over everything. It was, truth be told, glorious. And while we almost got lost on the walk back, and somehow managed to find actual horses on the side of a cliff in the middle of LA, every held up pretty well. Roosevelt actually walked the entire way, and wanted to do more. But we had to move on to...
LACMA. The LA County Museum of Art which has in its newly opened BCMA wing (people seriously need to tone down the acronyms around here), hands down, the most mind-blowing collection of big-name contemporary artists I've ever seen. It was visually exhausting, taking in so much in such a short amount of time. From a giant Koons balloon sculpture, to a Hirst sheep, to Therrien’s giant table and chairs. It was unbelievable.
Then you step outside and you're in the surreal landscape of the La Brea Tar Pits, which you've read about in school or if you were a dinosaur nut when you were a kid but you never really understood: These are STILL pits of tar. Who knew? Not me! And it's everywhere. You have to watch where you step in the grass because suddenly they'll be a little fissure of tar bubbling up. There are tiny fences all over the parkland cordoning off these little tar patches. It's truly bizarre.
After a little downtime we headed to LA's Chinatown (as seen in the movie, well, Chinatown) which was equally as surreal since many of the buildings have been converted into hip little art galleries while retaining their old-Chinatown fronts. Dinner with friends followed, followed by a dog parade to a local dog park for some late-night running around.
For a city that seems to embrace its stereotypes on many levels, it's also a place that seems to have surprises hiding under its surface. Might I suggest a new ad campaign for the city:
LA: Who Knew?
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