After 2 weeks of waking up every morning at 6:30am, my body was quite pleased to sleep in all the way to 9am! We decided to go to the children's museum on the Cal campus and headed out after a breakfast of cookies. The museum (the Laurence Hall of Science?) sits atop a big hill with a great overlook of the city. On the way up the massive hill we saw a pack of goats, bunch of goats? plethora of goats? herd? who knows... and I got out to take a picture. After accidentally shocking myself on the electric fence we headed onward to our destination. Even before entering we knew it was going to be fun since there were statues of a giant whale and a huge strand of DNA for kids of all ages to play on.
Inside we sneakily used our UCSB ID's and got student price of $4, instead of $17, and headed back to the dinosaurs. The exhibit was fun but the rest of the museum seriously outdid it. EVERYTHING was interactive! you could uncover fossils, make rockets out of cups and foam, learn about gravity and forward motion with loop dee loop toys, build structures out of jenga blocks, play with the outdoor water feature and learn about tectonic plates, etc.
We finished up after 2 hours and decided to get some lunch at 900 Grayson, a place my mom and dad said was quite tasty. The wait was half an hour but once we sat down and looked at the brunch menu all our doubt melted away... the two pomegranate mimosas didn't hurt either. We got chicken and waffles and it was outstanding, I was tempted to get another order but realized I was so full from the first I would just end up with a stomach ache. So we went back to the sublet and took a little nap before meeting up with Johnlyssa.
We left around 3pm and got to John's apartment around 4. We coincidentally got there at the exact same time as Alyssa so we headed up with her and all 4 of us decided on a place for dinner. That place was Nickies, we got fish n' chips, potato skins, garlic fries, and country fried chicken, all alongside some Guinness. From dinner we headed to the Sundance Kabuki theater where we had tickets to see "Midnight in Paris" with Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams.
The theater had a bar where we bought a bottle of wine and took it inside with us to the balcony seats! between every two seats there was a little table and it was definitely one of the more awesome theaters I have been to. Hopefully we will have another opportunity to go back soon!
We were all pretty tuckered out after our long day so Kris and I bid farewell to San Francisco and our friends and headed back into Berkeley, where everything seemed a little brighter and less janky after our day of fun.
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