mummies and pyramids

When we were in Egypt one of the coolest things that we did was see the mummies! Here's one of the totally cool mummies! It was so awesome to see how preserved they were, after all this time! How they figured out the perfect process of mummification, I would love to know!
We also got to go inside the pyramids! It was awesome in there! It was kind of freaky at first because as you're going in, there's a bunch of people coming out, gasping for air and exclaiming in desperation, "AIR! FINALLY! I CAN BREATHE!" That's never a good sign. If you get claustrophobic, I would never recommend going inside a pyramid. It is hot. It is stuffy. It is cramped. It is small spaces times not much air times creepy feeling of entering a gigantic ancient structure with a dead pharaoh inside from 3,500 years ago. All of that equals just one thing:

AWESOME! TOTALLY SWEET! LET'S DO IT AGAIN!!!!!

Here's Kathryn in one of the passageways.
See how cramped some of the passageways can be? That's Ali, so imagine us as adults bending over to fit down there!

We're pointing at the exact center of the pyramid!

This is the room where the mummy is. It used to be filled with treasures until the tomb robbers stole them. You can see where the mummy is behind me. It's where that light is coming from.
Here we are in the center of the pyramid! Kathryn's taking the picture!

These are just some random pictures of the hieroglyphics and pictures that they drew all over the walls of EVERYTHING - the tombs, the temples, EVERYTHING. They are so beautiful!