Simply Add Boiling Water

We had an amazing trip to the museum last week. Our busy schedule and defeat of Mathmonster took us away from the computer (not a bad thing). Our adventure started in Egypt where Little Bit discovered the first of her many favorite things..the MUMMY. There was a picture of what the museum believes the mummy looked like in real life. They used scans to compile an image. More information can be found at this link: http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/mummy_facts.cfm

The continued tour took us through the ancient art collection ( http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/Ancient.cfm ). Amazing statues, painting, suits of armor, stained glass, and painting surrounded us. Freeboy was still on a mission to find something he liked and identified with.

As we left the ancient art we entered the painting galleries. Among the great finds were a Renoir, The Clock Tower in the Piazza, and a painting of a cat with fish. Here is an interesting tidbit of information about the Clock Tower painting, the artist took out an image of a man but didn't take out his shadow!

As a kid I visited the museum. However, in the 5 years we were gone from the area the museum expanded and added a huge new wing. We decided to venture through the new, contemporary area and on to the photography exhibit. In the contemporary area we viewed an amazing display of 1000+ cups. The cups were a replica of an ancient cup in the museum. As we were walking through the display a museum worker informed us that we could fill out a deep for a cup and put our name in a drawing to receive ownership of one. Knowing we had little chance to get one I stifled my thoughts and dutifully filled out deeds for the kids and myself. Upon completion of our deeds we descended the stairs to the photography exhibit where Freeboy found the item he identified with! There, in the small corner of the great hall was a photograph depicting a fire. The fire was a night blaze and the "old time" firemen were drenching the tall building with water. The tiny, important detail that I missed but was not lost on my son were the ironic words printed on the middle of the building..."Simply Add Boiling Water". Never one to miss a play on words or irony in any form, Freeboy found his treasure of the day!