Trip to Berkeley with Helen and Bibi

In March, I was in the Bay Area for the Game Developers Conference. I also got to see my Auntie Helen and cousin Bibi. We took a day trip to UC Berkeley, aka Cal, my alma mater.

At Cal, one of the biology buildings houses the Museum of Paleontology. They have a life-size T-rex skeleton! Her name is Sue. Bibi's in the lower-left.



GRAW-AUR!








There are a lot of hills in Berkeley! Here, we took a snack break in front of the campus bell tower, which is called the Campinile.








Bibi borrowed my camera and took this picture of a squirrel. I'm still not sure what the squirrel was doing, like whether he was resting, or about to zoom off somewhere.


This is one of the bells of the Campinile. Thankfully we didn't have to climb very far; they have an elevator.

The bells ring automatically on the hour, without warning. They are LOUD.

The Campinile offers great 360° views: the Big "C" in the hills, the football stadium, the Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, etc. The funny-looking building in the middle is the art museum. Below that are some tennis courts, where I once took a tennis class. You can also see a swimming pool; in the surrounding building, I once took a tap class. And in the field below that, we used to play ultimate frisbee.

From Cal w/Helen & Bibi

Bibi did some quick tree-climbing on campus.

We also visited the campus bookstore and a food court on the south side of campus. (We had Korean BBQ.) Then we took the BART back home. Even though it's a short BART ride from Auntie Helen's home to Cal, it sounded like they hadn't been there in years.

I'm glad we went.