On day 6, I no longer had a car, but I had Ellin to drive me around. Ellin had made some time to take me back to San Fransisco to see more of this beautiful coastal town. This time we went to go and see the California Academy of Sciences. This is a brand new museum that only opened last year, but there were many cool things to see since it is situation in Golden Gate park.
San Fransisco is about an hour away from San Jose if you wanted to know. It has a lot of touristy things to do, but it can be an expensive city too.
The California Academy of Sciences has a ton of things inside. It has a planetarium, a rain forest, an aquarium and other displays. The planetarium was neat as it was an imax-like presentation on our solar system. This particular movie was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and described the life of stars and most notably our star, the Sun.
The Academy also had a built in rain forest complete with birds, fish, and other tropical animals. You were able to walk through the rain forest and observe the various animals inside. The most dangerous of animals, of course, are protected in tanks and display cases. Nonetheless, it was neat walking though such a display.
The aquarium was also pretty cool, but it lost some of its lustre from the fact that I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium only a couple of days prior. The only exception to this rule was the albino alligator. It was something I definitely had not seen before.
After our trip to San Fran, Ellin and I headed back to San Jose so that we could meet Jer for dinner. We decided to go to japantown and went to a restaurant called Minato. Here, I had some food I had never had before. My Japanese food experience had been limited to Chicken Teriyaki, so it was a very nice experience to be able to try something a little bit different. The food was excellent, and I highly recommend it.
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Glad you had a good time!
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