Tips, California peeps?

[d_aulnoy]

My parents are coming to town!  Yay!

Now, despite having lived here for ... good lord, over a year, I am still a Calignoramous in a lot of ways: I know about beaches and public gardens, the closet things LA has to walking areas, etc., but I am damned if I can think of more than a handful of good indoor activities.  My parents are even less receptive to extreme heat than I am, so I'd appreciate any suggestions y'all might have on (literally) cool things to do in SoCal in a week of 95+ heat.  Thoughts?

Comments

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Japantown? Interesting shopping.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Ooo, good one - I'm filing that away in the back of my pointy little head (though, again, worried about the heat). In case I sounds like I'm over-reacting about the heat, my inherited reaction to it has caused my husband to compare me to a piggy once or twice. I don't sweat: I just turn red, and then white, and then faint. Too bad I'm above rolling in the mud ... but methinks it's a qualm the folks will share. Maybe I should buy them those little safari hats with the built-in fans from Sharper Image? 'Cause, yeah, almost every nifty thing I can think of it outdoors ... and I doubt they're flying cross-country for a tour of LA's finest shopping malls. :)