Greetings from Hemet!

I went with Doug to work at the Western Center today. There was a newish exhibit I hadn't seen yet - ART meets SCIENCE. It's all about Keva blocks, which are like Lincoln Logs for grownups. Doug built some of the models for the exhibit - it's super neat to see them!

We then went into the main room where we saw one of Doug's favorites, a friendly Harlan's Giant Ground Sloth:

This is Xena, one of the museum's big attractions:

Xena wasn't wooly, but she was a mammoth - about 12 feet high and 10,000 pounds
- and she wasn't even fully grown. How do paleontologists know she was a
juvenile? By her recently fused bones. Paleontologists recovered her
skull, tusks, three leg bones, and 20 ribs - making her one of the most complete
mammoth skeletons found here.

We went see the midnight permier of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince at midnight - super exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!