Afterwards, we headed down to Santa Barbara. We visited the Natural History Museum where we saw a planetary show (slight nap time for me) - I missed something about insects growing to huge sizes in the "possibilities" of different planets section, but was quite awake in time to see their gas filled planet visions of floating jellyfish that looked more like, well, testicles. This was a very bizarre show. This place has a disturbing amount of taxidermy, but I suspect that is the best way to display animal species. Much to my joy though, we did get to see real live birds up close - a falcon & an owl that the employees brought out to show people. I want to take that owl home. So cute!
To wrap up the day, we walked around town, had dinner & stopped for coffee before heading out. The dinner was, disappointing. After going up & down the street we found an Italian place that was reasonably priced, vegetarian friendly, and had a cute atmosphere. I ordered ravioli with pesto... and it was gross. After eating it, my friend tries a bit of the pesto & asks, why didn't you send that back? That is awful. I've never sent food back for not liking it before, so I guess it didn't dawn on me that I could do that. We figured out the pesto was a spinach pesto - who the hell does that? I hate cooked spinach. I love basil pesto. Damn them. But I did get to look at a picture of James Dean while we ate. There were little celebrity pictures under each table glass top (first pic below). I saw some pictures of him a while back on the Lomography website. First pic of those is from the Torn Sweater Series shot by Roy Schatt. I think it's a good moment to share them. What a looker.
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