The King Tut Exhibit was Fantastic
Jul. 24th, 2012 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocusReally, really, really fantastic. But also really long and hot and crowded, and this with timed tickets only letting so many people into the exhibit at a time. We had a great time though and learned a lot. It's amazing to walk through all these displays and realize that the stuff there is 3000 years old. It just give you this sense of awe and of time passing. It also had me wondering how they moved some of the larger pieces. A semi-truck flatbed, I suppose on some of it.
My son took 5000 pictures so I might have something to share in a day or two if anything turned out. The exhibit was about four times as big as the Harry Potter exhibit (and probably four times as crowded). Also way more interesting brecause it was history and real. Not that I wasn't fascinated by the HP stuff, but ancient Egypt is a whole different world.
We had a great time with my neice along and she was just so thrilled and happy to be there (more so than my kids, even who are history buffs). After the exhibit we watched a movie on the IMAX there, Secrets of the Pharaohs. It talked a lot about the tombs and the history of the discoveries and about all the grave-robbing and how the pharaoh mummies had actually been hidden by the priests and not placed in some of the original tombs at all. All very intresting. It makes me want to go see some of these things in person.
If anyone is in the Seattle area while this is going on, you really should make every effort to go. It's really worth the $20 for adults, $15 for children.
I did fairly well physically. Although I'm pretty much never moving from my bed and my ice pack again (or at least until morning), it isn't my knee that is hurting. It is my hip and low back. So much walking, but that's not the bad part. It's the standing. Just standing. Moving around loosens things up. Plus I still walk slow and my family walks fast. But no cane and I only had one moment where I wished I had it and that was after we'd left the science center. And I'm glad I didn't use it, because it will mess me up. I proactively scheduled a massage for tomorrow because I knew I'd be tied up like this. Part of it was the standing, part of it was the long drive there and back.
I plan to go swimming tomorrow, too. That always helps things loosen up again, plus anti-gravity is always awesome when you are in pain. Still, all in all, I did great. This bodes well for Disneyland in March.
My son took 5000 pictures so I might have something to share in a day or two if anything turned out. The exhibit was about four times as big as the Harry Potter exhibit (and probably four times as crowded). Also way more interesting brecause it was history and real. Not that I wasn't fascinated by the HP stuff, but ancient Egypt is a whole different world.
We had a great time with my neice along and she was just so thrilled and happy to be there (more so than my kids, even who are history buffs). After the exhibit we watched a movie on the IMAX there, Secrets of the Pharaohs. It talked a lot about the tombs and the history of the discoveries and about all the grave-robbing and how the pharaoh mummies had actually been hidden by the priests and not placed in some of the original tombs at all. All very intresting. It makes me want to go see some of these things in person.
If anyone is in the Seattle area while this is going on, you really should make every effort to go. It's really worth the $20 for adults, $15 for children.
I did fairly well physically. Although I'm pretty much never moving from my bed and my ice pack again (or at least until morning), it isn't my knee that is hurting. It is my hip and low back. So much walking, but that's not the bad part. It's the standing. Just standing. Moving around loosens things up. Plus I still walk slow and my family walks fast. But no cane and I only had one moment where I wished I had it and that was after we'd left the science center. And I'm glad I didn't use it, because it will mess me up. I proactively scheduled a massage for tomorrow because I knew I'd be tied up like this. Part of it was the standing, part of it was the long drive there and back.
I plan to go swimming tomorrow, too. That always helps things loosen up again, plus anti-gravity is always awesome when you are in pain. Still, all in all, I did great. This bodes well for Disneyland in March.
