Just before going off track, Hannah's class was learning about fossils and paleontology. Miss Barrett told the class about The La Brea Tar Pits located in Los Angeles and Hannah expressed a desire to go there while off track, so that's where we went today.
She was excited as we turned the corner to see the mammoth statues in the lake. She said it was just like the picture in her text book. 
Every year, for two months out of the summer, paleontologists excavate a pit. Today was a great day for going because today was to be their last day of excavating for the year, and possibly the next couple of years as fossils were found nearby when construction began on expanding the art museum. The paleontologists will turn their efforts to those fossils now. It was pretty cool to see the paleontologists working on getting a few more fossils out of the tar. And it was pretty cool to see the fossils sticking up out of the tar. 
We made our way into the museum and saw all there was to see inside. Hannah was very much interested in all there was to see and shared a lot of what they've learned in Science. 
Hannah said she really enjoyed going to the Tar Pits and is looking forward to telling her teacher that we went.
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