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?

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[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Probably not Huntington Gardens, then?

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Museums. We have some really nice museums - Norton Simon in Pasadena. The Huntington Gardens in Pasadena (the main house is set up as a museum - also the tea room there does a really nice tea). The Getty Center. LACMA. The Natural History Museum. The Museum of Tollerance. The Japanese-American Museum. The La Brea Tar Pits. Barnsdall. The Gamble House (not really a museum per se, but a really lovely example of arts and crafts california bungalo architechture with a lot of the original furniture.) I know there are more... there are huge numbers of museums in the area, really.

There's ice skating at the Pasadena Civic Center, if you /really/ want to get away from the heat.

There's a lot of theater, though that's mostly an evening thing. And there are pretty much always good concerts in the evening. Movies are less local color, but always good for getting out of the heat.

Outdoors, but good for beating the heat, at least when I was a kid: Raging Waters.

There's a nice acquarium down in Long Beach, I think. Ummm... I don't know, what do your parents like to do? What subjects are they interested in?