Break Chronicles: Yesterday's Surprise and Today's Packing Up

Six days left before I go back to work for the last six months of my school contract year. I am getting ready to send my boxes back to my house and pack up all of my things so I can travel across the country to the world of cold. This is always the hardest part about visiting - leaving again. I love this part of the country, and it is always a wrench to have to leave it. I also love where I live because it is different from here. 

Yesterday, my family members took me to one of my favorite places in the world - the La Brea Tar Pits. This is a park complex in the middle of Los Angeles where fossils were found in the 1870s while people were excavating the area for oil and gas. There are tons of animal remains contained within the tar, and excavations continue. The animals in the tar pits come from the last 60,000 years and includes the end of the Pleistocene era and all of our current time which is known as the Holocene (Thanks to A Field Guide to La Brea Tar Pits and the article, "What the tar pits tell us about climate change" by Regan Dunn and Jessie George).

This place has always been a favorite of mine. My parents have taken us to the museum and the tar pits often over the years, and I feel a sense of peace there unlike any other that I find. Even when the place is covered with little kids on school trips, I just love it. It is one of my happy places, and going there yesterday was a good thing for me. After that, we went out to eat and then came home just in time for my intestines to revolt about all the fried zucchini that I ate the day before. Other than that process, the day was perfect!

Here's a bit of a photo dump of the Tar Pits and the museum. Enjoy!!












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