Getty Villa

Our Christmas present this year to our parents was a day at the Getty Villa.  The girls got to have a "Family Field Trip" day.  They walked to school then almost immediately got signed out.  We got the earliest reservation time that we could and it was a good thing.  What we thought would be a couple of hour thing turned out to take all day.  We went on several of the tours that were offered.  The docents were amazing.  They knew so much about their topic and were great story tellers.  They kept us all interested and taught us so much.  The first tour was the architecture tour.  We learned about what the different rooms of the Villa represented and the history of it.  The edible garden tour was a lot of fun.  John and the girls even sampled a dried berry from the garden.  Emily picked the world's largest radish.  We did a touch demonstration about the glass art with recreated pieces.  At lunch we brought out a picnic and had gourmet sandwiches.  We still had time to go back and look at a lot of the art we saw in passing on the tours and the girls got to play in the Family Forum.