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FREE TUTANKHAMUN LECTURE TICKETS:
Tuesday 9 August, 6:30pm
Museum Theatre, Melbourne Museum.

There are a limited number of free
tickets available to Dr Elizabeth Bloxam's lecture, Forgotten
Landscapes, the quarries and mines of the New Kingdom pharaohs, which
is part of the Tutankhamun Tuesdays lecture series at the Melbourne
Museum. Further information, *link*

Please contact Rebecca Johnson, 9035 3324 / rajo@unimelb.edu.au


i dunno if this only applies to melb uni staff. but on wells. lol

Japanese Garden | Golden Gate Park | SF Day Trip

started the day at 9.30am scoffing down breakfast with tomas, as Anders, Santiago, Johannes and Mayura were staring at me from the front of the dinning hall. its 9.35am and i haven't left to meet them yet. ugh.. rush rush.

but we did manage to get to where we wanted before noon and the place was incredible. the view was lovely and the weather so kindly to match.
first stop was stumbling across Golden Gate Park and outside the Academy of Sciences. pitty we didn't join the IHouse trip that went there the very same day. aquarium, museum, indoor rainforest and planetarium so i have heard. next time next time.

the funny shaped vortex amongst Berkeley/San Francisco's signature ugly trees = De Young Musum. I totally want to visit that place. Best art exhibits in town apparently. Also first toilet stop of the day =P

California's Academy of Sciences!funny story of the day would have to be Mayura picking a flower off a tree (in a somewhat rather public area off to the side of the Golden Gate Park opposite some tennis courts)and placing it in her hair whilst a random guy in red pops along and tells her off.
"Did you know there is a $150 fine for taking flowers off the tree?
That's my tree!
I own the place, see my badge?"

LOL! i knew it was a joke deep inside.
but the fact he played it out for such a lengthy period of time really had Santiago and Mayura scared sh*tless.

Into the Japanese Gardens for cherry blossom goodnesss

lol he made it into almost all my pictures =P

many weddings taken place in all the areas we visit it seems

typical housing in SF, incredible.
i say typical in the terms that its colour and fancy
but each house is so so different!

hmm..

my lovely future humble abode? lol

city intersections

lunch stop. incredible view as we pig out on american burgers and fries

roller blading is common 0_0

my fav pic of the day

next stop mission st. lots of murals!

actually this might be my fav pic of the day

so realistic! the inside of the person looked exactly like the street.
surreallll

hit Castro's the queer area of town. oh my goodness. some stores you do not want to walk into...yes tomas ..my eyes were bleeding.. ughhh.. whyyyy

but some stores you did want to walk into =]

Stanford trip

lewl to much distaste of berkeley students and standford staff.

the hatred between the two universities is just ridiculous.

i mean they even sell it in the apparel.

anywho the trip was good, a good two hours =.=" of BART and CalTrain.

Caltrains are double storey!! =]

the station where Dreamworks is at! well.. nearish..
each station has as funny looking setup
la grand entrance to the university
a much more incredible version of melb uni south lawn

and this part definately not.. like a resort 0_0

did not feel like a university at all

their famous tower which unfortunately was closed so we couldn't go up

memorial church
random sign

a residential hall that I ninja'd inside. dang they seem to have grand pianos floating around everywhere. i spotted three just in one level.
at some points it was like a botanical garden

this part looked a lot like melb uni!

MacArthur Park or some restaurant with a name similar to that..

spring is in the air! so smelly...in a good way!
Stanford Art Musuem
what a grand entrance
they had had a section devoted to the Standford family
lots of stuff from their family on display

stanford has a massive art museum!

wish i had more time to browse the works!