Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Took the day off and we set off to the Academy of Sciences for it's 3rd wednesday of the month's free day. Admission is 25$ a pop, yuck! It opens at 9:30am, we arrive 9:40am..
First complication: Parking.. Good luck, we parked outside where it's 4-hr parking. Walking from where we parked to the Academy = a few hours.. heh j/k
Second complication: Line. We first saw the long line going towards the statue near the building. Then it kept extending to the bushes by the corner of Concourse Drive and JFK Blvd. As you reached the bushes, you then notice it extends towards the 8th ave intersection. At least it's moving at a good clip. We eventually get in..
Third complication: Once inside, it's masses of humanity, and lines to eternity. First thing i've noticed is that it's small inside, and kinda empty, if you could imagine it without the masses of humanity.
Fourth complication: Movement with a stroller.. Not cool, combine that with floods of peoples crowding little windows for viewing = really not cool.
We walk around and couldn't really see much. The line to the rainforest wrapped around the building, and the tickets to the planetarium was for the 3:30pm show. It's currently 10:30am..
We decide to go downstairs to the aquarium. It seems impressive, but it also seemed like being in a club. The only thing worse than this was the good old days of halloween at the castro..
We leave at 11am, and at that time the line, which extended past the bushes, was stopped. There could only be so many people inside. I can say that it's a totally smaller place, and it's focused on a few exhibits, which causes it to be even more crowded. The Rain forest, Planetarium, Aquarium and Roof are all there is to see. It's not like the good old days where the large long hallways and exhibits upon exhibits kept flowing. Even the albino alligator was out on a medical leave!
We leave and get the rear left tire patched. Somehow the valve was damaged and was slowly leaking. I can say, by switching the spare tired thats mounted on the trunk, the engineering is flawed. The spare tire has a different offset then the 4 normal rims. When the spare is removed and replaces the normal rim, the threaded studs are too long and the bolts tighten up not on the rim, but to it's limit. The inverse also sucks, when i tried putting the normal rim into the space where the spare was, the offset makes the normal rim not able to fit into the space. The threaded studs aren't long enough.. Weak!
First complication: Parking.. Good luck, we parked outside where it's 4-hr parking. Walking from where we parked to the Academy = a few hours.. heh j/k
Second complication: Line. We first saw the long line going towards the statue near the building. Then it kept extending to the bushes by the corner of Concourse Drive and JFK Blvd. As you reached the bushes, you then notice it extends towards the 8th ave intersection. At least it's moving at a good clip. We eventually get in..
Third complication: Once inside, it's masses of humanity, and lines to eternity. First thing i've noticed is that it's small inside, and kinda empty, if you could imagine it without the masses of humanity.
Fourth complication: Movement with a stroller.. Not cool, combine that with floods of peoples crowding little windows for viewing = really not cool.
We walk around and couldn't really see much. The line to the rainforest wrapped around the building, and the tickets to the planetarium was for the 3:30pm show. It's currently 10:30am..
We decide to go downstairs to the aquarium. It seems impressive, but it also seemed like being in a club. The only thing worse than this was the good old days of halloween at the castro..
We leave at 11am, and at that time the line, which extended past the bushes, was stopped. There could only be so many people inside. I can say that it's a totally smaller place, and it's focused on a few exhibits, which causes it to be even more crowded. The Rain forest, Planetarium, Aquarium and Roof are all there is to see. It's not like the good old days where the large long hallways and exhibits upon exhibits kept flowing. Even the albino alligator was out on a medical leave!
We leave and get the rear left tire patched. Somehow the valve was damaged and was slowly leaking. I can say, by switching the spare tired thats mounted on the trunk, the engineering is flawed. The spare tire has a different offset then the 4 normal rims. When the spare is removed and replaces the normal rim, the threaded studs are too long and the bolts tighten up not on the rim, but to it's limit. The inverse also sucks, when i tried putting the normal rim into the space where the spare was, the offset makes the normal rim not able to fit into the space. The threaded studs aren't long enough.. Weak!
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