Mumia Vera

        The Leonardo is awesome.  My family went there today to see the Mummies of the World Exhibit, and it was super cool.  (Dim as Abercrombie, but I guess you get used to it.)  They have plenty of exhibits on loan from Germany, from a rat mummified in an attic, a furry dog (which would have been cute when alive), and Egyptian cat mummies (actually kittens, probably raised to sacrifice *sad face*), to separated heads (fascinating) and feet (more beautiful than living feet), and European mummies found mummified in their coffins by happenstance.
         The Chilean mummies were my favorite.  Their curled burial position made their death seem much more natural, and much more human, than the rigid, deformed positions of the wrapped Egyptian mummies.  It seemed like they were just curled up, wrapped in striped blankets, and left in the desert, instead of being wrapped up in gauze and forced into sarcophagi.  One was a woman with a whole face and a thick head of hair, with tattoos on her chest.  The cloth left a striped pattern on her chin that looked like more tattoos.  Another was a woman positioned laying down, with her head over a child and a child laid on her lap.  Everyone was really romantic, especially the parents, "It's a mommy and her babies."  The description, though, said that the child on her lap was probably placed there about 200 years later, and they aren't sure if the first child was hers at all.  But it was beautiful.
        Another mummy from South America (they have the oldest mummies in the world) was of an 8-10 month old baby, 6,500 years old.  It was in remarkably good shape; it looked like it was completely intact, with hair and skin.  It's hard to wrap my head around that amount of time.  Before the Renaissance.  Before Rome.  And Europeans dared to say that they were chosen people.
        So of course, then come in the Europeans. They believed that mummies, "mumia" could help people to maintain their youth and health.  So they excavated thousands of mummies, crushed them up, and made them into medicine.  It's been a historical tradition for new people to call the old people ridiculous, and here I am. 
        It's definitely worth going if you have a few hours.  I spent about an hour in the exhibit, but you get access to the rest of The Leonardo exhibits as well.  The science exhibits looked so cool, but my sister was feeling sick so we had to leave early. It seems like a great place to just be for hours, so I hope I can go back soon enough.

        I hope everyone's having a good spring break, unless you had it earlier and mocked us—ha ha!  We just had a color guard competition, and we took third place again—which is good, considering all of the bad luck we had that day.  Now we only have one competition left.  I'll probably cry.  But somehow I held back the tears at the end of fall, so maybe I'll be an unemotional robot about it.

        Doctor Who was on! 

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