Mummies

 Last Saturday, we didn't have soccer games because of Labor Day, so we took a minute to go to the UofU Natural History Museum.  It's not as big as the Smithsonian, but it's still really neat.  They have Dinosaurs, gems and minerals, Indian history, bugs, animals, and their special exhibit this year is mummies.  I've been to several mummy exhibits, but my kids haven't.  It was neat. The kids have read the Red Pyramid series, so the Egyptian god names were familiar to them, but it was neat to see a timeline and explanation about them.  I was surprised to hear how much the kids knew about little tidbits as we walked through.

Evelyn had said that the reason that the paintings were always to the side was because they believed that they could have their soul stolen if they looked at them head on.... so Sam promptly went and had a staring contest with this bust.