Finally, We See Eternal Egypt

We all had a day off Friday, so headed to Victoria to see the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum. We also (barely) took in the IMAX "Mysteries of Egypt."

I say barely, because we were reminded why we hardly ever go to downtown Victoria - parking. Parking sucks! After much swearing and driving in circles, using a horrible map from the Musuem's website, we found a spot. Then it would only cough up 3 hours of time. \\argh\\ We had to run to the IMAX and just made it, skulking to our seats at the very front in the dark.

After the IMAX we had some time to kill before our entry window, so we took in a bit of the Human Civilization exhibit. We wanted to go to the Natural History area but go shooed away before we realized we could still get into that area.

The exhibit was very nice, lots of interesting stuff but way too crowded. There was an annoying background buzz from lots and lots of people and their audio tours, not to mention one horrible woman reading every word of the descriptions to her children (who were old enough to read themselves) so I had a headache by the time we left. It was worth it though, since who knows when I'll get to the British Museum to see this stuff in it's home exhibit.

Selena was excited because everything (what little was left) in the gift shop was on sale. And that we stopped at McDonald's on the way home. We were also entertained by Selena reading us the questions from her Pringles and seeing how many we got right. I learned I need to brush up on my astronomy . . .