Getty Museum and Santa Monica

Friday 13th
We had a great day with Adam and Krissi just tooling around. We went to the Law school, Krissi’s office, a little farmers market at Zuma Beach, Malibu Bluff Park, the Getty Museum and to the Santa Monica Pier.

This is part of the Getty Museum. The reflecting pool is like many we saw in Italy. This whole museum was fashioned after an Italian Villa which was destroyed in the eruptions of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

The Getty Museum was a reminder of our trip to Italy where we saw the ruins at Pompeii and the Herculaneum. There were a lot of artifacts there from that region. It was really impressive. We had a great lunch there as well and the prices were so reasonable.

This is an authentic Roman helmet along with some body armor.

We went to the Santa Monica Pier after the museum for dinner. We also had a drink and an appetizer at the Mexican Restaurant on the end of the pier. There were a lot of people playing music and singing along with the normal fare of artists and the like trying to get a tip from the throng of people out for an evening meal.

We had dinner at Bubba Gump’s. It was very nice. The food was really good too and I got to keep the Pilsner glass my beer came in to mark the occasion.

We had to answer a lot of Forest Gump Trivia. Our waiter was from New Orleans and we had a good time discussing our trip there this past spring. Griff was a very personable guy.