Summer Field Trip - La Brea Tar Pits

As part of our summer activities, we went to the Boone Children's Gallery, but I forgot to bring my camera. It is a place where kids can use various supplies to create art projects. The boys did enjoy the paint area, but since they are not very artistic, they had more fun running around the padded building block area.

The next week, we joined a few friends and went out to the La Brea Tar Pits. It is an interesting museum that documents life in Los Angeles between 40,000 - 10,000 BC. Tar continues to bubble up from beneath the ground, so there is a very strong odor. This tar trapped many Ice Age animals and preserved their bones quite well. The boys enjoyed watching the Wooly Mammoth display, but were a bit frightened when it would lift it's head and roar. Although they dragged me over to it about 6 times, they were too afraid to stand next to it by themselves for a picture. I am sure you can imagine what Tyler and Dylan would look like standing next to a life size wooly mammoth, though.

Here are the kids outside the museum, where they entertained themselves running up and down the hill. At one point, we got almost all of them to sit nicely for a picture (Afton and David - sorry we missed you!):