Couger-Crane-Gopher

Doug had to work today - and Mon and I needed a slow day after Disneyland (and in preparation for Disneyland ALL DAY tomorrow, woo hoo!) - so we hung around Riverside. We drove downtown, looked around the Mission Inn for a little bit, and then went into the ambitiously named Riverside Metropolitan Museum. Where we found this wonderfully confused/goofy looking cougar:I think he's hysterical. It's like he just smelt something bad

They're having an exhibit named Reading the Walls: Japanese-American Families during WWII. It's a neat little exhibit. There's a place to make a paper crane - two middle school girls have made it their project to make a crane for every person placed in an interment camp. To which...shrugs. It was quite amusing for Mon and I to attempt:
You're supposed to put them where the HI AMY! sign is but I obvously kept mine (and Monica wore hers in her hair). Mine is the one with the L to the right and Monica's with the M to the left.

We went to Doug's Museum (Western Center in Hemet) for Monica to see. We watched the movies, looked at the fossils, made some clay models of fossils. Also at the museum - friendly golphers!