Another Saturday Outing

We had to go into Beverly Hills for an errand a couple of Saturdays ago and I decided we couldn't miss the opportunity to do something local.  It was a bit to early for most things to open so we headed to Franklin Canyon and did a small hike.

It was a gorgeous area with different kind of floral than is typical of southern California.  I guess that is why shows have been filmed there.  I recognize it from the Andy Griffith Show and Murder, She Wrote but of course more modern shows have used its location. 

After we spent some time there we headed home but we first stopped at the Nethercutt Museum.  This was kind of a hidden gem.  It's FREE and its close by.  There are two aspects of the museum, the actual museum and then the collection.  The museum basically was a huge room that housed tons of old restored cars.  The collection has some more cars, vintage musical instruments and other random collections.  We enjoyed seeing the cars, especially noticing how large the earliest cars were!  They had a motor home that you could walk through (it was so tiny!) and there was this awesome music box that played the violin.  It was something I never seen before.

I believe this was the smallest car they had on display.

I loved these limos, they're so classy!

Inside the Motor Home, it was toted as a two bedroom.  It had an ice box and a teeny bathroom.

Outside the motor home

This was a violin music box.  There were pins for where the fingers would go and constant rolling cushions for where the bow would be.  They even had a pedal where it would make the vibrato.