They had a tea and cookie room upstairs. That interesting contraption on the far left is a samovar, which is a tea maker/decanter thing. Old fashionedy.
I photograph tea grounds. Maybe they will tell me my fortune. (The grounds sorta look like Australia... I hope that means that I will go there soon. That would be a good fortune.)
Nice decor.
This is a poorly composed photo of a charming portrait of Laika, the first dog in space. There was a whole shrine to the Soviet dogs of outer space.
It is too complicated to explain what this is. Swinging weights on chains.
Ricky Jay narrated an exhibit about the degeneration of dice in the Los Angeles area. These are the melty dice which I found interesting.
Miniature model of a trailer home.
I haven't even scratched the surface of all the weird and crazy stuff they have at this place. Y'all should check it out.
Then we went to Venice Beach:
As always, they have some amusing signs, sometimes not intentionally so.
Some muscle men showing off to the public. I would too if I had lats like that.
One of those guys who paints himself in metallic colors and makes mechanical whirring noises when you give him money. Only this one has a DOG.
People like dogs in Venice Beach. They also sell dog clothing, dog hats and dog sunglasses somewhere around there. The booth moves periodically.
This is the free dog water man, who also probably moves this piano every day to the beach and back to wherever he lives. Only in LA? Indubitably.
I bought a poster and took a picture of the palm trees through it. I got the idea from Bryan though, don't credit me.
The Duke of Plaza Toro: Ah, Venice.
Santa Monica Pier:
I like to photograph the waning sunlight and the frolicking natives in the repulsively polluted Santa Monica beach water. (It sure is pretty though.)
My mom thinks this shot is amazing. Um. Okay.
I like this one better.
Someone (a stranger!) recently favorited this photo on Flickr. Yay! I'm famous!
Though, again, as far as ferris wheel photos go, I like this one better. No accounting for the tastes of others.
I also like this one.
I have a million other ferris wheel photos, which I won't bore you with, but they're on that Flickr page that I JUST linked. So check it out.
Why has nobody favorited this photo? This is poetry. (Haha.)
I also have a million photos of reflections of various luminous bodies, natural or not, reflected in the ocean, which I won't post here either for the sake of brevity, in which this post is already severely lacking.
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