If I'd known

The Franklin institute in Philadelphia is host to the King Tut exhibit that we had the privilege of viewing last week. When I was in 7th grade, my parents took sabbaticals and we traveled in a vw camper around the country and truly looked the part of people living in a bus. So, at one point in this adventure, we were in Chicago where the above mentioned traveling tour was at the museum of science and industry. At 3am, we went and waited in a line to buy tickets which where actually for a viewing time of 5pm, and as I remember it, that made for a long day. Anyway, it really was an exciting event and most of the collection was present, as opposed to this time. There was plenty of smoke and mirrors, dimmed lights, curtains, dramatic music. Yet, most of the exhibit was composed of general Egyptian artifacts and then at the end in the last gallery after you passed through into the land of the dead, there were around 15 cases of the actual Tutankhamen collection and the most best part was the holographic sarcophagus in place of the real thing. Eamon summed it up, as he always does, "what a rip" and indeed it was, but we still bought $70 worth of crap in the gift shop.