Year of Dates

One of Russell’s Christmas presents this year was a Year of Dates.  And yes, this was a pinterest inspired gift.  He received a basket of envelopes, on for each month, that had a preplanned date activity.  And each contains everything we need for the date.

So yesterday we went on our January date.

We went to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to see the King Tut exhibit.  It is the last time it will ever be outside of Egypt again, and it’s last stop was Houston.  A couple of other teachers had said it was really good, so I was excited to check it out.  Now, I know this date was probably more up my alley than Russell’s, but I knew he would like it as well.

It was a pretty good exhibit.  I know they had extracted over 1,000 items from his tomb, and we were a little disappointed they didn’t have a TON of stuff, but they did have a lot, and the most important stuff.  We were also disappointed that they didn’t have the sarcophagus- they had one of the small ones that contained his stomach, but not the large one that actually contained his body.  But I can understand if it is solid gold, it is very valuable and hard to ship.  But other than those two things it was very fun, educational, and interesting.  We had a blast.

Then we walked around the rest of the museum and saw some of the other art they had.  Then we headed back to Cypress because we were meeting some college friends for dinner.  My old rooommate Katie and her husband live in Richmond, and Krystal (my old bible study leader) and her husband just moved back to Cypress.  They are both really great, and so are their husbands, so I’m sure we will make it a regular thing.

I wont say what the rest of the years dates are since they are still a surprise for Russell.  So stay tuned for the rest of the dates!!