Museum Hopper

i went to the fashion institute (fit) museum on a saturday afternoon to check out the new exhibit. i was very impressed. as usual, the museum is free. one half of the museum was closed (no exhibit), but the other half had their new exhibit, seduction . it was quite beautiful. the exhibit covers about 250 years of women's fashion displaying how the female shape and clothing that covers it has changed. they have some beautiful gowns, corsets, and accessories. i loved one of the dresses . it was designed by cristobel balenciaga . it is designed with "black net lace, black silk and a pink satin ribbon" tied around the waist. i really liked the simplicity of it and then the pop of the pink ribbon. i also really liked this dress for the intricate drapping/wrapping by halston . after this visit, the museum which was on the border between a B+ and an A- got bumped up to an A- after excellent execution on this exhibit. times visited: 2 time in museum: 30 minutes overal

last weekend, my dad and sister were in town and we headed up to the american museum of natural history . we were there for quite a while. we started out checking out the " animals of north america ." always a pleasure. every animal from alaska was bigger than the other animals in the family...everything is big in alaska. we also checked out the " hall of ocean life " to obviously, check out the ocean animals. i love the sea otter! then of course we had to head upstairs to check out the dinosaurs! i finally identified what drives me crazy about the dinosaur exhibit. if you head up the main stairs/elevator, you have to cut through half of the exhibit to get to the true exhibit entrance. otherwise, you start with dinosaurs, then you go back in time to the first vertebrates, then you get to the wooly mammoths (and early humans) and then you head back to dinosaurs. you are really supposed to start with the vertebrates, then the dinosaurs (both sections in

i went to the getty with my boyfriend and some of our friends that live in LA. it had been raining in LA for the past few days. we were lucky that we hit about a 4 hour rain-free hours. the great news about the rain is that it cleared a lot of the smog...we could see all the way down to long beach (supposedly). i had no idea what to expect when we went to the museum. it is up on this hill that you take a cable car up to the top of the mountain that overlooks LA, the valley, etc. the museum is composed of lots of separate museums, so going on a day with good weather is more important than i realized. they also have these pretty gardens that wind about the place. another nice thing about this museum is you just pay to park ($10). we saw a couple different exhibits while we are there. the first one was the belles heures (the beautiful hours) of the duke of berry. they were on loan from the metropolitan museum of art in new york city. we also checked out the tango with the cows: