Just how big is an a380?

Anyone following my blog the past few weeks can tell that I've become a big fan of Airbus Industries a380. It truly is a beautiful plane to see and seeing it on its final approach is, in my mind, the best free show in all of Los Angeles. Here are a comparison set of photos that I took nearly side by side, minutes apart, to give you an idea of its size. First on the left is an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737. (To give you a good idea of the 737's size, it's the same aircraft that Southwest flies.) The Boeing 737 is no small plane, but it's dwarfed by the a380. I should mention that as you can tell by the tree on the left side of the photo, I was actually a few feet closer to the Boeing 737 than I was to the a380.