Yesterday, on Christmas Eve I went down to San Francisco to visit the new California Academy of Sciences. The museum was amazing, it has a huge aquarium–where I spent most of my time–a planetarium, a rainforst biodome, and a living green roof.

I brought my friend Rigel with me, and we met up with David who was taking photos for a story in the San Jose Mercury News. We all took a million photos, I think I’m the first to get them up though.

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Caitlin Childs is a photographer, graphic designer, and nerd hailing from Santa Rosa, CA. She's had an unending case of the hiccups for over 13 years, and is most likely to be overheard talking about the most recent thing she's heard on NPR, read on the internet, or seen on youtube.

3 Comments for this entry

jessamyn

February 1st, 2009 on 7:08 pm

that fish photo is so rad!! we went on 12/14 (for our anniversary… dorks!) and loved it, especially the planetarium.

Anne Siegel

December 9th, 2009 on 3:33 pm

Hi
We’ve tried to go to the Cal Academy of Sciences before and never even gotten in due to the crazy crowds. I was wondering if its less crowded Christmas eve day and I saw that you went there last year on that day. Was it insanely crowded? To me that can spoil the experience so I’m hoping to pick a time wisely. Thanks for your help,
Anne

Caitlin

December 9th, 2009 on 3:35 pm

To be honest, I haven’t been there on a day where it wasn’t crowded! But my best advice would be to get there right before it opens. I’ve found that it’s significatnly less busy in the mornings, but around 1-2 it gets packed.