The Getty Center

Before we left Los Angeles, we went to the Getty Center.
They usually close on Mondays but they opened the last Monday of the year.
So we got to see it!

When we got there, we parked our car. Then we took the train all the way to the museum. It was the only way to get there. You could walk too but it was a bit far and all uphill.

The view of Freeway 405 from the train.
My mom said she drove on this freeway almost everyday to go to school while she was living in LA.

This is the train!

The garden was sooooo beautiful! We went down there a little later. 

But first we saw this exhibition.
I never got scared though there were pictures of blood in many paintings.

Some of the things we saw.

This was glass painting from late 1400s.

 

We saw how the books were written or painted.

These were the materials they used to make the letters and pictures in the book.
They used egg white to coat the pictures so they stayed new. 

Steps to make it.

Then we saw this sculpture by Auguste Rodin. Rodin was French.
I know he had other famous sculptures like the Thinker.

There was a center where you could learn to be an artist like how they learned in the past.
In the past, if you wanted to learn to be an artist,
you would go to the famous artist and asked him to teach you. There was no school for that.

First you started to draw birds. Once you mastered the birds, you could move on to hands, then feet,  and then faces. Clothing and fabric were the last to learn.
We looked around the center but we didn't have enough time for me to do any drawings. 

Around the Getty Center

                               

That was Sina and me!!

Then we saw the super super famous paintings. 

Like the Irises, Rouen cathedral, the Wheatstacks, and La Promenade.

The Irises by Vincent van Gogh. 1889.

Rouen Cathedral by Claude Monet, 1894.

Wheatstacks by Claude Monet. 1891.

La Promenade by Pierre-August Renoir. 1870.
I like this painting a lot because there are a lot of details and it tells a story. 

Portrait of Jeanne Kefer by Fernand Khnopff. 1885

The Eternal Feminine by Paul Cezanne. 1877.

Spring by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 1894

View from the Getty. 

Van Gogh

Van Gogh and Monet

This was J. Paul Getty. He lived from 1892 to 1976.
He donated his money to make the Getty Center.
The Getty is free for everyone to visit.  

And it was time to go home.

The Getty Museum was so much fun. I recommend everyone to go there.
I also want to go there again. I have learned a lot and a lot and a lot from there.  

Knott's Berry Farm

Knott's Berry Farm is really not a farm! It is a theme park in California.
It is about 45 minutes from LA.

There is a section for children called Camp Snoopy!

 

Camp Snoopy was good. I got on a ride that took me all the way up the pole and dropped me down. Sometimes it didn't go all the way down and it bounced back up again.
I felt dizzy on the ride. But I had a lot of fun!

We took a picture with Snoopy.

Baba, Sina, and I got on the Camp Bus. It swung us around and around. It was scary!
We dropped down backward. But I didn't scream.

This Ride was so much fun! It is called Timberline twister. But it was too short.

We wanted to get on this ride but we were too short. :(  That's why I didn't have a smiley face.
Sina was happy we couldn't get on this ride. It looked quite scary and super fast.

We couldn't get on this one either. But we didn't want to get on this ride anyway.

But we did get on some other rides.
All the rides were short but the lines were soooooooooo LONG!!!

This one was so much fun! The Calico Mine Co. We went into a mine in a mountain. We saw so so scary stuff but I loved it. We saw how the miners worked and what it was like in the mine.
One of the miners (of course he wasn't real) almost slammed my head. 

At the end of the tunnel, there was an explosion. Again, it wasn't real. 

Sina didn't want to leave. I didn't either. We hope we can come back to Knott's Berry Farm again. And next time, we will be taller and we will be able to get on more rides!