Our Fav'rite Honkey

Father's Day was a nice day in Western Washington, which means it wasn't actively raining.

I gave Tim a few options of what to do.  One of them was to go see the King Tut exhibit in Seattle.  Since we were staying downtown Bremerton, it was a short walk to the ferry terminal.

We took the free bus that became a pay bus for the last few blocks, but it let us off right by Fisher Plaza, and we got to see the icon of Seattle, the space needle!

Okay, is it just me, or do these signs look sexual?  Or is it the 'King Tut Kid' in me coming out?  :)

Our tickets were in late afternoon, so we had all day to see the Pacific Science Center, and watch some iMAX movies.  Of course we went to the dinosaurs, but William (no surprise) was more interested in the space section.

The look of glee on his face says he would have loved to have been a Gemini astronaut.  Although, I had to laugh when he called it, Juh-MEE-knee.  

And another one of William's loves, the dynamics of water.

He could have played all day here.  He was bummed he didn't get to ride the bike on rails (above and behind him with the blue steel structure and circular rail).  He wasn't tall enough.

Finally, it was our time to go into the exhibit, and Tim gets a work call.

Now, the flier did say it was the Treasures of Egypt and King Tut exhibit.  Most of these statues are of Kings and Queens, whose tombs were robbed, and this is what is left.  The workmanship is amazing.

King Kahfre.

Different types of materials were carved.

Horemheb 1315-1343 (about the same time Kamakura was capitol of Japan) was the last king of the 18th Dynasty.

He offers incense to the solar God Khepri, which is no longer visible, as they don't have that part of the wall...

They did say there were 30 dynasties that ruled from the thrones...   :)  Yes, this is the OTHER kind of throne.  And I must say, whoever cleaned this did one heck of a job.  Can you imagine lifting this lid?  Okay, so maybe we know the Kings sat down...  but look at that small size of a hole!  I'm still thinking it would suck to be a cleaning serf for an Egyptian king.

We saw beautiful boxes of every shape and sort.

This one is for a favorite cat's remains.

We saw heads of all shapes.

Large statues (I think this is of Aneshwtep).

Homage to a lawyer amongst priests (notice the one with the scrolls in hand).  (joke)

More boxes, statues, and statues with boxes as part of them...

This is a queen's casket.

We saw jewelry...

We saw this fairly good-sized gold with a bit of inlay statue of some King (not Tut)...

...and then finally, we 'went through the camp of Howard Carter' to find...

artifacts from the different parts of King Tut's tomb.

Another call from work.

A small statue of the boy king.

Beautiful alabaster urn.  I loved how they carved the table with it!

You can see how some of the gold has come off of this.

One of the boats, symbolizing how King Tut would cross the river Styx.

Loved how this falcon had a thing on it's head!

And then we saw it!

A little tiny Tut tomb for his innards.  THIS is what you see on the banners and buses.  Not the big head Tim and I saw in 1978.  Apparently that had a bit of damage when it was shipped last, so Egypt won't let if out of country anymore.

There was a larger, alabaster carving of King Tut.

Some of his amazing jewelry...

...and a real mummy at the end to look at...

but not the big head I expected to see.  Just this tiny guy who looks giant on all of the posters.  

While we enjoyed our day at the museum, and thought they did a first-rate job on the exhibition of Egyptian artifacts, only 1/4th was King Tut, and it wasn't as spectacular as it had been last time.  We'd wanted that experience for William, and was why we paid over $40 per ticket to see the exhibit.  Oh well...  we live in Japan, where everything is tinier.  I guess that trend is coming to exhibits in America! :)