mummies

Had a really good day out in Aberdeen today. First we bought some new summer clothes for the children (they’ve grown SO much in the last year – a friend commented on this and said it must be because they’re no longer being squashed down!). Then we visited Marischal Museum. This was called the anthropological museum when I was a child which we shortened to the ‘Ploj’, a name that has stuck. No-one really seemed to know about it in those days – we only did as my Dad worked in another part of Aberdeen University but in the same building. Kids loved the Egyptian Mummies best I think though it is a treasure house of all sorts of fascinating bits. Then on for a lovely lunch at the Beautiful Mountain. Ottakars, health food shop, toy and art shops, then we met my sister in the Art Gallery to give her her birthday presents. Had a good look round – ages since weve been. Noted a further change in the childrens attitudes and interest levels. Both were asking many more questions and making intelligent observations and were quite awed to see drawings by Matisse and Picasso. If only I had followed my heart and home educated them from the beginning – but there’s no point to that kind of thought now I suppose. Had a long discussion about Landseer’s Flood in the Highlands. We were all also impressed with a work of art that at first looked like a mouldy old sleeping bag just laid out there. It was actually cast in bronze and was a statement about homelessness. Now were home Davie and Daniel have gone off to get Chinese food so a nice, relaxing evening in store

Now there were no signs saying no photography so I think I was allowed! Mummies inside and out, including an astonished looking little cat mummy, clock tower of Marischal College from below and in the art gallery:

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