Closing Out Our Egypt Study

This morning, we headed out to the Penn Museum of Archeology (our GPS calls it the Penn Museum of Archeo) to see some real stuff from Egypt up close and personal. It was pretty neat to see columns and other artifacts that we had previously only seen in books. The girls each searched for the first letters (sounds) of their names in hieroglyphics, and we noted some of the hieroglyphics that we recognized. They also drew pictures of some of the things we saw there. Katy said that her fevorite part of the Egypt exhibit was the bones, even though they were kind of gross (her words). Darsie was most fascinated by the little child's mummy. Matt and I thought the sphinx was pretty cool. It is the third largest spinx in existence and the largest in the US. All but its head is in excellently preserved condition, because it was apparently buried up to its neck in sand when it was found, so only its face has worn away in the weather.

Posing with the head of Ramesses II

Posing with a whole statue of Ramesses II

Afterwards, we continued our field trip to our favorite milkshake restaurant, Nifty Fifties!