British Museum Part I

And the moment you let go

                                                       The faster the time goes

The darker the night is

The lighter the moon glows

- Good Old Days - P!NK

This week I decided to make a start on the British Museum!!! In five hours I got through three exhibits. I have no idea how tourists get a chance to fit everything in!!!

The second I entered this gigantic, buzzing building, I knew where I was heading – Ancient Egypt! 

How I went from this to being in a room full of Ancient Egyptian Treasures I can’t quite comprehend! 

The Ancient Egypt exhibit is such an amazing and fascinating display. I was in awe the whole time. Being so close to artefacts that date back over three thousand years ago. Thinking that real men carved these statues and hieroglyphics in around 2 200B.C and now I am able to look on and see it. AGH! I could write about it forever instead I will just show you some pictures! 

Check out those hieroglyphics!

This was a little emotional for me (can you tell by my facial expression) - I have a mini-sized version of this exact statue in my collection and here was the original!!!! It was breathe taking!  

If I had my outfit I would have blended in…right? 

I thought seeing the mummified bodies would be AMAZING  - and it was for like five minutes - then I realised these were real peoples dead bodies I was gawking at. All of a sudden it felt quite morbid! I still looked but I stoped taking photos…that’s respectful isn’t it?!?!

ENTER ANCIENT GREECE…

This display was also very, very cool and got me heaps excited for my travels to Greece with Tamara in July and Mum and Tony in August. The Greek artefacts were not is good condition like the Egyptian ones and it was hard to find a statue that had a head!

The statue of Aphrodite had a head…

…she just didn’t have a top on! (As you can tell unlike the mummies I had no problem gawking at this one.)

After seeing so many bodies with no heads I found a head with no body…so we took a selfie!

I took him a few tries but I think he really mastered the art of it!!!!

If like me you didn't get enough last week, here are some more pictures of black people dancing!!!!

This traditional African choir were performing to celebrate the new exhibition for the Sowei mask:
spirit of Sierra Leone! They were pretty awesome!

After the performance I went to the African exhibition!

The Throne of Weapons was created by a Mozambican artist, Cristovao Canhavato, from weapons collected since the end of the civil war in 1992.

The Tree of Life is also made from decommissioned weapons. Canhavato teamed up with three other Mozambican artists to transform ‘Arms into Tools”.

My wonderful day at the British Museum ended with a beautiful Turkish feast that I just had to share with you! So YUM!!!!

Chicken Shish Yogurtlu, Bread, Salad and Mixed Olives! 

                                                               Pistachio Baklava 

Continued prayer for finding accommodation and a great Church and Church family would be much appreciated!

As always I’m sending all my inappropriate love your way,

Joey!!!!