Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Norwalk Bee

A couple weeks ago we had to drive out to Norwalk and LA to take care of some of Faith’s post-adoption paperwork. This is usually time consuming and ends up taking our entire day to complete. This time around we decided to take a couple trips off the beaten path to break up the monotony. In Norwalk we went out in search of the elusive Norwalk Bee. The Giant Bee was not where we were told it would be, but with some clues and determination we found him located in the Ride In Share/Bus Terminal parking lot.




To our dismay however, we arrived during the early afternoon, thus not a parking space was to be found. After going around and around the lot, I decided to take the chance that the lot security would be gracious and went for the ever-unpopular double park. Kellee and Faith were troopers and ready for the game plan. We exited the truck and took the pictures below and then re-entered the truck and we were off so quickly that it would make any NASCAR pit crew proud. Way to go A-Team!

4 comments:

abigail grace said...

O Man, we are totally jealous, we searched for over an hour for that thing when we went. We could not find it. You have to tell us exactly where you found it. That was the one of the girls favorites that we searched for but could not find! Happy you found it, jealous but it's cool!

contrarian 78 said...

Is there any historical relevance to this thing? I'm not getting the coolness of it, to be honest.

Have you guys visited the Santa Ana Discovery Science Center (it may have the prefix "Taco Bell")? It's pretty cool.....

foldreformer said...

No, not everywhere I go has some historical relevance to it. I would venture to say most do not, but that doesn't mean that the Bee isn't cool.

The Bee is public Art representing the sejat indians who once called Norwalk, Suka- the place of the bees! So it was to pay homage to them.

The Hollands seem to enjoy searching for the weird and whacky as I do, and the seem to have a fascination with Giants (Their blogs have muffler men, giant oranges, etc.)So I can see why trying to find that the bee would be alluring.

contrarian 78 said...

I was wondering if it had historical coolness because it's not that impressive compared to larger giants, or odder oddities.

Maybe it's my fear of stinging insects talking but that's my impression on it.