Califur 2
Two years ago, Glen and I went to Califur 0, a furry convention. Glen is a budding artist with a strong interest in anthropomorphic and theriomorphic art, and such conventions are a great place for him to socialize with people who are as weird as he is. Last year, we took Evan along to Califur 1. This year we added Lee to the party. Glen is the only one of us who actually attended Califur; the first year, I went shopping at the South Coast Plaza and to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Last year, Evan and I went to the Bowers Museum of Cultural History and Disneyland.
This year, Glen started out Friday morning with an ear infection, so we had to delay our departure a few hours to get him into the doctor. We were late enough that we got into rush hour, making it take a lot longer than it should have to get to the hotel in Costa Mesa. As a consequence, we just dropped Glen off at the convention hotel and went to dinner, albeit at Storyteller's Cafe at the Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland.
We three non-furries went to San Diego's Museum of Man on Saturday. I had been wanting to see their Footsteps Through Time primate evolution exhibit for some time, and this seemed like a great opportunity. Their earlier full-scale models (representing the outdated linear-evolution theory) seemed too crammed together, and I wish they could have been displayed without all the reflective plexiglass, but it was an excellent exhibit overall. I particularly liked the reconstruction of Chauvet Cave in France with its numerous famous cave paintings. A representative selection of fossil reproductions illustrated the modern theory of human evolution: that a variety of hominids evolved, but only one line eventually evolved into homo sapiens and the others, including Homo neandertalensis, died out.
Today the three of us went to Wilmington to see the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum and the Banning Residence Museum. We all enjoy looking at historical residences with period furnishings, and the Banning house even had mostly original furniture. It was an afternoon well spent.
This year, Glen started out Friday morning with an ear infection, so we had to delay our departure a few hours to get him into the doctor. We were late enough that we got into rush hour, making it take a lot longer than it should have to get to the hotel in Costa Mesa. As a consequence, we just dropped Glen off at the convention hotel and went to dinner, albeit at Storyteller's Cafe at the Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland.
We three non-furries went to San Diego's Museum of Man on Saturday. I had been wanting to see their Footsteps Through Time primate evolution exhibit for some time, and this seemed like a great opportunity. Their earlier full-scale models (representing the outdated linear-evolution theory) seemed too crammed together, and I wish they could have been displayed without all the reflective plexiglass, but it was an excellent exhibit overall. I particularly liked the reconstruction of Chauvet Cave in France with its numerous famous cave paintings. A representative selection of fossil reproductions illustrated the modern theory of human evolution: that a variety of hominids evolved, but only one line eventually evolved into homo sapiens and the others, including Homo neandertalensis, died out.
Today the three of us went to Wilmington to see the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum and the Banning Residence Museum. We all enjoy looking at historical residences with period furnishings, and the Banning house even had mostly original furniture. It was an afternoon well spent.
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