A visit to the UCLA Campus

We took a drive to Westwood to visit the University of California, Los Angeles campus.  UCLA is huge!  It has nearly 40,000 students on a 419 acre campus.  It's so big, you can buy a bicycle in the campus bookstore!  The university was founded in 1919, and the buildings have a stunning brick architecture.

The library entrance was so nice, that was had to see the inside.

This alcove seemed like a great place to take a picture.

Brick arches.  Splendiferous!

The reading room makes me want to ... read.

Even the stairs leading up to the reading room inspire your imagination.

As I said, the campus is big, and it's also very green!

UCLA sports teams are known as the Bruins, and bruin is another name for brown bear, which you probably already guessed by looking at the picture of this bronze statue.  The flowers and photos are part of a memorial for John Wooden, who coached the UCLA Bruins basketball team to 10 national championships.  John Wooden was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.