16
Dec

California Academy of Sciences

Yesterday (Tuesday) was a lay-low type of day. We slept in and then headed over to Alameda/Oakland to take in Needle in a Haystack. It’s the “local” stitching shop up in this neck of the woods and Melissa definitely wanted to stop by. It was a fairly large store – the biggest cross stitching/needle work store I’ve ever been in for sure. I picked up a few things, including the following two charts – but this stop was really Melissa’s weakness.

pirateship

snowman

Today we had big plans. We were first going to head over to the California Academy of Sciences, then head over to the Golden Gate Bridge and walk across it. Imagine are dismay when we woke up to rain/mist. But we headed out anyway. We started with the CAofS – which includes among other things an Aquarium, an actual living Rainforest and Planetarium.

There were a ton of great pictures taken, but here are a few:

pinkstarfish

rainforest

turtle

When we left there we decided to head to the Bridge, even if it was still crummy weather. We figured if nothing else we should be able to get some pictures taken today. Well, we hadn’t really intended on CROSSING the bridge, as there is a $6 return toll to get back, but somehow the exit was missed and over we went. So we stopped at the viewing point on the other side and took some pictures. The fog was still low, but it made for a cool picture – unfortuatnely we coudn’t see much else!

ggbridge