Day 19 - Itinerary for Tuesday October 1st
7:00am: Breakfast
8:00am: Catch bus to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
12:30pm: Farmers Market
2:00pm: Go to La Brea Tar Pits/ Page museum
5:30pm: City Walk and indoor skydiving with iFly
Today was a rather long day with the group rising at the
bright and early hours of 6am-ish and having a lovely breakfast of congealed
scrambled eggs and DECENT fruit! We caught the bus at the front of Sportsmen's Lodge and journeyed to JPL (Jet Propulsion lab.) We met the fastest speaking
tour guide EVER and he explained how the JPL came to be and its history, then
we watched an informative video about the wondrous planets of the universe,
ending with, “We are all star dust, all of your being, all of your dreams, is
star dust.” Hmmm, it was touching... We were taken on a tour and saw many smart
people wandering about their habitat and also the clean room where they were
building the SMAP. As we walked outside, many deer just walked about on the
footpaths, it was very strange.
Afterwards we made our way to the Farmers Market. The shop
people were very friendly, there was a lovely casual atmosphere and FOOD! The
food was amazing and the majority of it seemed very fresh! The La Brea Tar Pits
was a place with tar seeping up from the ground. We got to learn about the interesting
facts of the tar pits and how they kept various animal bones and other
particulates that have been trapped.
We then went to Universal Studios were some people shopped
others did i-Fly. We had a packed day but full of fun and can’t wait for tomorrows
sleep-ish in.