August 24, 1978

Today we set off for San Francisco at 8.40. I slept most of the way. Then we saw the Lawrence Hall of Science. It was super. There was a Phisics lab (where Mummy wasn’t shocked), the Biology lab (where I got bitten by a rat) and the Planatarium (where we saw 2 shows). I had Scallopps at the Airport Hilton for dinner. Our plane took off at 9.15 and I slept from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

That would be "shocked" with a Van der Graaf generator rather than "shocked" at the dreadful nature of the exhibits, I am assuming...