field trip

It was 9:55 a.m. when I looked at the clock, and Ryan and I were just laying in bed, not wanting to get out of it. I realized I overslept my Zumba class (bummer!). So Ryan suggested we go into Boston! I was like HELLS YES! We decided to go to the Museum of Fine Arts, and as a bonus, we got in free since we are Bank of America members! And by the way, I love taking the T. I feel so city :)

I personally hate looking at paintings. I'm more of an artifacts kinda girl. The first part of the museum we went to was the Ancient Egypt section, which was my FAVORITE! The Ancient Greece section was pretty cool too. The things in there weren't really art... they were ancient artifacts from like 3000 BC (not an exaggeration!). The oldest artifact we found in the museum was a piece of pottery from the 5th millennium BC. I wish I got a picture of it, but just picture an orange fat vase that looks like it was made 5000 years before Christ was born.

I didn't think you could bring a camera, so I didn't. Dumb me. But I used my semi-okay camera on my phone. Here are some of the things I learned today: A sculpture of Emperor Augustus

The coffin of Princess Henettway of Thebes (Egypt) from 1070 BC

It's kind of hard to see, but there are 4 separate coffin things here, each one getting bigger as it goes back. That's because they take the body, put it in the smallest one, then put that coffin in the next biggest, and so on until it ends up in that big box in the back of the picture!

I took this off the plaque under the statue: The largest sculpture found in Egypt's Old Kingdom! It was found in Giza and from somewhere between 2490 and2472 BC! It's from the smallest of the Giza pyramids.

Metal helmets from 500 BC