Tut-Tut

So we journeyed back to Philadelphia today to the Franklin Institute to see...King Tut. Well, that's who we thought we'd see. Our school generously paid for tickets to the King Tut exhibition at the museum.

I remember going to the Smithsonian Institute when I was a kid to see a similar exhibition. I have very vague memories of the trip and imagined that I'd seen the actual Tut mummy.

Well, I didn't. And we didn't on Wednesday either.

Turns out the 3,000+-year-old mummy and his coffin don't travel well anymore. Go figure. So after walking through the various rooms filled with treasures from the tomb, we came to the last room and a photo projection on a block showing the various layers of King Tut's coffin.

Hmmm....

Not what we'd hoped for.

Still, it was interesting. And the kids enjoyed it.

Afterwards, we decided to take them on a car ride around the city to see the Hard Rock Cafe and the various historic locations -- Independence Hall, Carpenter Hall, Penn's Landing, and the Liberty Bell. And then to...South Street for an authentic cheese steak at Jim's. We even showed them where we went to the concert on Saturday.

Quite a treat for all!

And one consolation is that we can always go visit "our" mummy at the Reading Museum only 8/10s of a mile away. She's not quite as famous...but she's there.