Day 10

Warning: this post isn’t for the faint of heart. There will be photos of mummified bodies if you scroll down. Keep in mind, my children saw them face to face, so pity me and my wife, what we saw today will be in my kids nightmares for the next thirty years. With that said, enjoy Day 10.

Our boys thought it was a good idea to pack their bags and plan a trip to Mt. Everest this morning. They packed their carry on bags, got food, and brought books, and had some pesos. Luckily for us, they don’t know how to use the keys to leave the house, so we caught them before they were able to attempt a break for it. We had a long chat with the three boys about how foolish that was, and it of course denigrated into my explaining that not everyone who climbs Mt. Everest survives, and if you die on that mountain, they leave your body there. SO… it was a great morning. It took us a while to get them to unpack their bags this morning. By the time we were done, we had lunch and cleaned up the kids rooms.

The kitchen has a cute little table the kids usually eat at for breakfast and lunch, like here.

After lunch, we decided to head off the the mummy museum. Historically the city we are in was established in the 1500s. The Aztec’s inhabited the area first, and then the Spanish. The Spanish brought Catholocism with them to Mexico, and established churches all over the country, including the city we are in. With churches, come cemeteries, and crypts to hold the dead. Eventually in the 19th century, a doctor started exhuming bodies from cemeteries in order to study the plague, and other illnesses in order to understand them. What the doctor discovered was that the bodies buried in the area were still preserved, and did not really decompose. The bodies were essentially mummified due to the nutrients in the ground that preserved and did not allow true decomposition.

We have four children, ages 9, 8, 6, and 4. I honestly couldn’t think of a better place to take our children, then a museum dedicated to displaying corpses that never really decomposed.

The drive on the way to the mummy museum

They allowed photography, just not flash photography. So the photos will be a little hazy.

The following photos are of babies who were mummified.

This is the youngest mummy in the world on the left, a baby that was found in the mummy that was estimated to be six months pregnant

If you made it this far, I tip my hat to you. After we had a great time looking at mummies, we took the kids out for Italian food. The restaurant was pretty good.