Over hill over dale as we hit the Golden Gate trail. . .

What a gorgeous Tuesday.  Our destination today was Golden Gate Park and the Academy of Science. 
The walk there (well, mostly train but then we walked) was a little different.  We had left the businessy districts and entered into more neighborhoods.  The people were very friendly and on the way we noticed that Kiki seems to own this town!  LOL - See Tuesday photos and videos.

As we walked passed the ball diamonds in the park we chanced on a blue heron.  Proud as anything he had his head in the grass for a little bit and then came up with a mouse and proceeded to eat it.  Matt tried to video - but he wasn't watching from the start and I didn't want to startle the heron.  You don't see those every day in Texas. 

We continued on our walk to reach the California Academy of Science.  It was a nice place - kids probably love it.  In fact - there were a lot there enjoying it.  Seemed like it was homeschool and preschool age kids day.  We went pretty quickly through their aquarium part as we saw a lot of the same kinds of sea creatures yesterday.  But the swamp and rain forest area was totally different and totally hot and humid. 

We did attend the planetarium showing of "Life a Cosmic Story".  Well - it was a good time in the dark to take a little relax.  I think we heard the word evolution and big bang about 100 times in 30 minutes.  if anything the show made me agree more with a Creationist view point and young earth view point then their view point. 

The last thing that we did there was climb into the above water rain forest to see plants, snakes, birds and butterflies.  Matt was able to get some pretty neat pictures. And I can't forget the silly penquins (African mind you).  There was one that was definitely showing off for the crowd. 

We decided then to take a train and a walk down to Ocean Beach (more up and down).  Can you guess what we saw at the end of the road?  You want to say ocean don't you - but we saw sand.  Dunes.  Big ones.  Not as big as Lake MI at those sand dunes - but big enough.  We trudged  (I don't think there is a better word for it)  up the sand and down the other side and Oh mylanta!!  The ocean was rough, powerful and just amazing.  No way this developed from "evolution of cosmic dust and cells". 

There were a couple of wind surfers out in the waves and it was mesmerizing to watch them. It takes a lot of skill to juggle a big kite (or sail) with your hands and manuever your board with your feet.  If Isaac had been with us - he'd probably want to try it out.  We were happy watching them and staying dry.

We boarded the N train back towards our neck of the city.  We were the 3rd people on and by the time we reached our stop it was standing room only and a juggle to get off.  But - I really like being able to use city transportation to get from here to there. 

We decided to try a different spot for supper (dinner for these city folks).  It was called La Scene and arranged its menu by acts.  We arrived for happy hour at 5 and decided to eat there as well.  I've never had crab risotto before - oh was it good!!!! Matt had a lucious piece of lasagna.  We were there for over an hour and we were the only people there.  The rest room attendent told me that they get really busy after the theater closes at 9 or 10.  ahhhh. . . . .they also have great specials then, but we were happy, sated and needing to walk off some risotto. 

So instead of bussing home we walked a couple more hills and decided to call it a night. 

Until tomorrow - I say goodnight and God bless.