California Academy of Sciences

Last Wednesday, during my one week of break before work started on Monday this week (I'll try to get a post about work up some time soon...), I went to the California Academy of Sciences. For those of you who don't know, admission is free every third Wednesday of the month, so if you want to go, make sure you go then. It opens at 9:30, but you'll want to get there by 9:30 at the latest cuz there's a loooong line to get in, and once a certain number of people are in the museum, they stop letting people in and make you wait outside.

Anyways, it's pretty fun (though not really worth the $25 on non-free days). There's a planetarium show, an aquarium, an exhibit about mammals, lots of models/displays of animals, and other educational things about animals lol. The best part is this giant dome that they have that contains a rainforest. It's really pretty (and also pretty hot... it is a rainforest, after all!), and there are free-flying birds and butterflies, in addition to colorful snakes and frogs and lizards in glass displays. Oh yeah, and they have real live penguins too! Penguins rock :D

Okay, time for some pictures I guess...

Top-down view of the rainforest. Pretty, yeah?

This is me in the rainforest. I think I took almost all my pics in the rainforest. Anyways, I know it's hard to tell, but there's a butterfly on my right arm. It's that brownish looking thing lol.

Butterflies! It's so cool, they just fly all around you in the rainforest, and if you're lucky like I am, they'll fly on you too :D

Teeny tiny red and blue frogs. They're cute!

And finally, for those of you who haven't met the boyfriend, here's the boyfriend. He looks hella like a little boy here. NO I'M NOT A PEDOPHILE.