Funky Tut

The boys have been learning about Ancient Egypt in school. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has a small exhibit of black market mummies on loan from our fellow Puebloan Andrew McClelland. But after also watching the Indiana Jones movies, they were expecting a bit more to bring it to life.

It’s over 6,800 miles from Denver to Cairo. Plus things are a bit feisty there for small kids. It’s only 4,600 miles to London and the British Museum happens to have a stunning collection.

Between requests to get ice cream and stop walking so much, they enjoyed it a lot.

"How'd he get so funky? Did he do the monkey?"

He coulda won a Grammy, buried in his jammies

For a bit more history, we visited the Churchill War Rooms. The underground bunker for the War Cabinet during World War II was largely left exactly as it was at the end of the war.

They got a little lesson in civics with a walk by 10 Downing Street and some explanation on their Prime Minister vs. our President (the key takeaway was that the President's security is much better, never caught goofing off with tourists like these guys).

Everything just as it was in August of 1945. That stiff guy apparently got left behind too, likely because he just wasn't very much fun to be around.

No PM sightings today. 

They also learned that the clowns at Piccadilly Circus are just the tourists buying overpriced merchandise and there are in fact, no circus acts. Buckingham Palace is kind of a long walk away and isn’t that great. And the lions at Trafalgar Square aren’t really Aslan. You can’t ride on them either.

This guy isn't having much fun here either.

All lions look alike. Apparently this is not Aslan.

Don’t tell the kids they learned something on this trip, it will spoil their fun.

Not all the ladies love his style, and this one doubts that he was born in Arizona.