Since we have a new niece, my husband and I spent the last week of February visiting his family in Northern California. We took one day to explore the newly reopened California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. It’s a fantastic, interactive place, with an indoor rainforest, a planetarium, a knobby green roof (which you can inspect from an observation deck that offers a view of the entire city as well) and an entire subterranean level full of shimmering aquariums. It really takes all day to see everything. The exhibits are incredibly well-designed, and really encourage curiosity. On the top floor, there’s even a Naturalist Center, where I was happy to discover four of my books, as well as lots of other Dawn Publications titles, in the children’s library. Always fun to say hello to them when I run into my books in unexpected places.