We asked for this for Christmas as a Marriage Saving Device, because every time we drive anywhere unfamiliar, we end up fighting as the Worst Driving-Navigation Team Ever. Evidence: our two trips to San Francisco earlier this year. And that San Francisco trip when we were newlyweds. [Shudder] You don't want to know. This is why we always take the train into New York City instead of driving our car. And let's just say it was a very good thing that the directions from Connecticut to Utah were "drive west on I-80 2500 miles."
Anyway, we fired up the GPS unit and searched for Oakland area attractions. We found the Lawrence Hall of Science at Berkeley, and it got us right there without incident. Hallelujah.
We had a lot of fun there, a hands-on science museum targeting children, but also great fun for adults. We pet a chinchilla, a tortoise, and a snake in the Biology Lab. Disaster almost ensued when Juma tried to let the chinchilla out of its corral. And I felt a little thrill as the snake wound powerfully up my arm.
We also spent a while in a building-blocks room. This one was just as popular with the grown-ups as kids.
Outside the museum, Juma climbed the entire way through a sculpture of a section of the α-amylase gene, 1.2 billion times larger than the actual DNA.
There were also a planteterium, a music room, puzzles, a puppet show, a earthquake display, and a life-size whale statue. Four hours later, Juma still wasn't bored, and we still hadn't seen the whole museum, but we had to leave to pick up Cameron.
The GPS unit easily got us to the airport, and after getting Cameron and his momentarily lost luggage, we had the nüvi find us a restaurant on the way home.
Excited that the list included German restaurants, we had it direct us to one called Noah's Hofbrau in Modesto. We walked in, excited about Rotkohl and other yummies we haven't had forever, only to find sweet and sour chicken and chow mein on the menu. What the? Turns out the German-named restaurant must have been bought out by some Chinese owners, and though they still offered a couple German items, we were taking the chance of eating Chinese-German food. No way.
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you mean you aren't applying to be on the couples "amazing race" any time soon? We are the worst too. We call it directionally challenged.
We would love to do the Amazing Race. But I'm afraid that'd bring out the worst in us. We'd be That Couple that Fights the Whole Time we're trying to get anywhere. And nobody likes that couple.
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