Sunday, December 28, 2003

Le Brea Tar Pits

Up at 7:45, showered, had breakfast and waited in the lobby for the Magic Mountain hostel bus. Out of the seven that signed up, only three showed up to go, and they needed at least five, so we didn't go.

I decided to go to La Brea Tar Pits, tar pits where various animals got trapped, died, and preserved, thousands of years ago. The bones range in age from about 9000-40,000 years old (no dinosaurs here). They have thousands and thousands of bones from extinct animals, like mastadons, mammoths, dire wolves, lions, lots of various birds, etc. It was very interesting. Stayed there for a few hours.

I walked there, and on the way, stopped at a nice outdoor pedestrian mall/market. On the walk back to the hostel (1.5 hour walk), stopped there again, and looked around some more.

Got back to the hostel about 5:30, I think, watched "Cat in the Hat" (crap illegal copy), then "The Mummy" in the hostel bar.

Then did nothing much until about 8:40, and went back up the bar, because they had a comedy night with a bunch of professional comedians. Most of the comedians were pretty good, one of the was great, another chick comedian totally bombed, and left the stage early, quite upset/angry. We can't help it if she's NOT FUNNY!!!! They had 8 or 9 comedians altogether.

The comedy ended about 12:15, then I went to bed.

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