Griffith Observatory

Clifford at Asymptotia has posted his observations about the newly re-opened Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. It sounds great.
Even before I decided that I actually did want to have a kid or kids, I thought that the fun part of being a parent would be taking the kid(s) to places like Griffith Observatory.  (The non-fun parts plus my own insecurity were why I used to think I couldn’t handle parenthood.)

Not that I have  denied myself all the fun up to now. I volunteered at a small Science Center for kids in Grad School Town mostly because I remembered liking the science museums so much when I was growing up. This one had a playground that was all supposed to be illustrative of scientific concepts (things like swings with different lengths of chain). If I’d learned my stuff there better (or remembered it better), I could explain it all. I can say that it was a fun playground.