Griffith Observatory

We went to Griffith Observatory in the late afternoon and got to the park at sunset.  It was a very pretty walk to the top of the big hill and the observatory.  We got some great views of the sunset over the ocean and downtown L.A. 

The Observatory itself is pretty cool.  It's a small museum in and of itself.  It wasn't very exciting for Cate though, unfortunetly, as most of the exhibits were over her head.  She liked running around outside and inside and touching everything though.  She especially liked standing on the scales that told you how much you would weigh on each of the planets in the solar system.  The cafeteria food was very disappointing, but Cate didn't notice.  We won't be eating there again, but I'd love to go back and take a closer look at everything else.  Catherine was also too young to attend most of the planitarium shows so I think it would make a great date night with just Joe and I.