High point of summer...
and a three day week-end. So it’s time to start thinking about our educational plans for the fall. Due to the anticipated return of King Tut to the Field Museum next May, I think we are going to make Ancient Egypt the thrust of our school year. Big Ed had a good idea at dinner on Friday night. To kick off the school year, we should visit the permanent Egypt exhibit at the Field this fall. Now that I think of it, Eddie may have been in a stroller the last time we went through the Field and Chuck was going through one of his more sensitive phases - in which he was obsessed with the danger of being locked in the museum. I vaguely remember some sort of panic attack in a corridor that hit a dead end instead looping back around to the main hall, the way most of the exhibits do. So I think we’ll do the Field (and maybe the Art Institue, too, while we’re at it) to start off the school year.

Another project I have in mind is having the boys keep “diaries” of their Egyptian study. In the manner of a fake-simile book, much like Egyptology by Emily Sands. I already have the sketch books. We just need to work up some enthusiasm.