Today we hit the wall.
After 21 days of straight travel and merry making, we have crashed. We slept in and spent the morning in the hotel, swimming in the pool and generally sorting outselves out a bit.
Eventually we got our act together enough to drive to the Farmer's Market for lunch. The Farmer's Market is apparently an insititution in LA and we certainly loved sitting outside and people watching for a while. We then walked next door to the Grove, LA's only outdoor mall. 
We then headed to the La Brea Tar Pits to explore the huge collection of ice age fossils pulled out of the natural asphalt pits which lie under the Beverley Hills area. We had lots of fun looking up (and up and up) at the mamoth skeletons and saw our first humming bird in the atrium garden.
We also walked in the garden around the museum, enjoying the statues of ice age animals, the active dig sites in the park and the heady smell of tar.
We discovered that the difference between NY squirrels and LA squirrels is one of attitude as well as species. NY squirrels will take one look at you, turn their backs and get on with what they were doing. LA squirrels will take one look at you, spot the camera and pose winsomely for multiple shots.
We ended the day walking from our hotel back to the Farmer's Market for dinner, picking up some fruit for tomorrw and heading back to crash in bed.
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