Mar 23 2008
An Adventurous Easter
The day before Easter we got a new HD video camera and decided we needed to go somewhere special to try it out. The only problem? I couldn’t come up with anywhere that didn’t take at least 3 hours to drive or wouldn’t be over 100 degrees due to the recent heat wave in California.
We still hadn’t decided what to do by noon on Sunday but Albert just happened to find out that we could get 4 tickets to visit 
the Getty Villa at 1:30 that afternoon. Yes, he found out at noon, we left the house around 12:30 and we had to get there by 1:30 pm. You might think it is an easy feat to get to Malibu in an hour but I assure you that it is NOT easy and in fact is not even possible. We learned the hard way that traffic is quite heavy on PCH leading up to the Getty Villa and probably spent at least a half hour just going the last mile to our destination. We arrived sometime between 2:15 and 2:20 and I think the guards at the gate had heard plenty of people complain about the traffic already because they didn’t even question our being 50 minutes later than our appointed time.
We drove up a quaint cobblestone road to the parking garage and walked into the main part of the Villa. The Getty Villa is a beautiful estate that houses an extensive collection of antiquities. It seems like the Villa offers a number of daily movies and tours that explain a history of the Villa itself, the gardens and the architecture but since this was our first time visiting and it was late in the day we decided to go on the self-guided route.