King Tut ~ 4-6-12

The King Tut exhibit was about to leave Houston after months of it visiting. When it left it was traveling back to Egypt forever, so the commercials kept saying. At any rate, Michael and I had recently disucssed going on more family outings and we wanted to go see King Tut. We thought Cameron was old enough to enjoy his first experience to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Braydon was lucky enough to get to stay with Nana. It would have been inappropriate to take him unless we snuck a sleeping pill in him. :) We got down there about 6:35. I went to take a picture of Michael and Cameron in front of the gigantic statue outside the musuem and quickly learned that my camera battery died! What?!?! So the picture from my cell phone will have to work. 

  Michael and Cameron in front of the museum.

We got inside, found the restroom and set out on our journey back in time. We were in the museum about an hour and a half. 

Some of the items we ACTUALLY saw at the museum. 

Photos from the Museum website.

Akhenaten

 Amenhotep III in the Blue Crown

 Colossal Statue of Tutankhamun

 Falcon Collar of Princess Neferuptah

 Golden Sandals

 When Michael and I first started looking at the artifacts, we discussed how crazy it was for such old items to look so pristine and asked each other if they were replicas. We quickly figured out they were not and enjoyed the exhibit. We learned a lot and are so grateful for the opportunity to see such  wonderful pieces of history that we may not get the opportunity to see again.
Cameron did okay. Because there was so much reading about each artifact and he can't quite do that yet, coupled with the fact that he didn't want to listen to me read it, he became inpatient at times, but did great for his first trip without knowing much about what he was seeing. At one point he was leaning on the glass and was told my an employee not to lean on it because there was a security alarm on them. A few minutes later Michael told Cameron it probably was not a good idea to lean on the glass again unless he wanted to be tackled.:)

As we were leaving the museum we received a text from Nana and Papa, who were watching Braydon. The title was "Future CEO."

We left about 8:30 and Cameron mentioned his head hurt. So, on our way to dinner at Cheddar's we stopped by the store to get some medicine. Afterwards, we enjoyed dinner and headed to pick up Braydon.  Braydon helped Papa assemble a computer chair and was still wide awake at 10 when we picked him up!