The Adventures of Sock Monkey Episode 2: In Search of Blue Stuffed Animal Crabs... Day 4

   So! I'm on the final day of my vacation before I go back to being "normal" at home. Also, quick reminder, remember to check the last post because I added some stuff to the last two or three posts. Now, on with the adventures! 

   We checked out of our hotel at 10 AM and we finally decided that we would all go instead of my dad staying at the hotel. We then took the 47 bus to the Golden Gate Park and walked all the way to the California Academy of Sciences. Of course, after a quick stop at Whole Foods for some doughnut holes. The admission price is pretty high but it is so worth it. They have a skulls exhibit (which I personally thought was kind of creepy) and an exhibit for the evolution of mankind in the African Hall and guess what was at the end of the hall? Penguins! There is a live Webcam for the penguin exhibit and I'll tell you how to find it on the website (see link below). 

http://www.calacademy.org/

Go to the tab "Discover Science" on the top and then find "Live Webcams" and click on "Penguin Cams". You can also check out the other webcams. Back to the blog. Also, there is a huge planetarium that features shows about dark matter and other things about cosmology. They also have the world's deepest coral reef exhibit, a 90-foot four-story tall glass dome with a habitat that mimics a rain-forest with real animals, and a living roof. I'm serious. The roof has grass and about 10-15 different types of native plants and other things like that. I even saw a hummingbird feeding off a flower on the roof. Maybe this picture helps.

You can see almost the entirety of Golden Gate Park! 

Anyway, we did the aquarium first and saw a bunch of animals and fish living there. See below. After that, we walked through African Hall, and then walked through the rain-forest before watching the two o'clock show in the planetarium about dark matter and dark energy and, I am not very happy to say this, but I kind of got motion-sick while sitting in one spot the whole entire show. Oops. Here are some pictures.

Here's a joke for you. What do you call a fish without an eye? A fsh! (Eye, I, get it?)

This is the rainforest exhibit and, trust me, it feels like a rainforest in there.

Then we went to the Skulls exhibit and basically, saw some skulls. I enjoyed the visit but, to me, skulls are creepy and I wouldn't have gone in the exhibit if no one was there. If you don't believe me, see this picture and then re-think what I just said.

All skulls! On the wall! 

Yeah. Afterwards, I felt like stopping by the gift shop to see Lemondrop the Lavender Albino Reticulated Python. Or something like that. Here's a picture.

Lemondrop, meet Sock Monkey. Sock Monkey, meet Lemondrop. 

After that, we went back to the hotel to get our luggage and then walked to the BART train station and then went all the way to the airport where we took the AirTrain to the terminal and checked in, and then waited for our flight. As we were flying off (and I'm sad because it's like, one hundred fifteen degrees back at home!), my mom got this picture and all of the white stuff is cloud and that one hole in the cloud is right where the airport is.

I'm so thankful for the Paper Artist app! 

And that's so cool! We arrived back at home 2 hrs. later and my cousin's dad picked us up and drove us back to our house. And that concludes Episode 2 of "The Adventures of Sock Monkey"! So, questions, comments, etc, comment board is that way! Other than that, I'm mostly done so thanks for reading!