Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose

This week is spring break for my monkeys. That just means my 3 and 4 year old don't have preschool. Unfortunately my nieces, and my kids' monkey friends, had spring break last week! So I had to do a field trip solo.







I decided to take my 3 savages to places that I haunted as a child. I grew up in San Jose, California, long before it was Silicon Valley. So I decided to take my kids to lunch at The Old Spaghetti Factory and to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.



Here is Jake enjoying his dessert. His entree was spaghetti with meat sauce but Jake looks like this after drinking water. He is just a messy dude, and goes through more costume changes in a day than Cher at a concert.













After our cheap, yet tasty lunch we headed over to the museum. The museum is a historic building that has lifts for wheelchairs, but no elevators and I would feel like an idiot using the lifts for the stroller. So I left the stroller in the van, which means I had no hands to take pictures inside the museum. I was on high alert with 3 toddlers and glass cases full of artifacts.

Mike pointed to one of the paintings on the wall and asked what it was. I told him it was a Pharaoh and he launched into singing, "Pharaoh let my people go....". We just celebrated Passover so the evil Pharaoh was fresh in his mind. I cracked up laughing, and Mike got a couple of weird looks.

The museum has a replica of a tomb and we got there just in time for a docent to give us a brief talk. Michael was totally into it, especially since it was dark and she had a flashlight. Toddlers go crazy over flashlights for some reason. When her talk was over, Mike immediately raised his hand and said, " I have a question, what happens when the mummies come back alive?". So she launches into this speech about resurrection, which was way over his head. He was thinking about the Scooby-Doo movie he saw.

Then Bekah, who has to copy everything her big brother does, says, "I have a question.". So the room full of people look at her and she does a pirouette and says, "Wheeee". OK folks the tour is over. Everyone laughed but I wanted to escort her out before she got out of control.

We didn't last much longer inside the museum, which was fine because kids 5 years and younger are free. I only had to pay for myself so I wasn't looking to stay there past their attention spans. We headed outside where they have beautiful gardens, and I let them run around before heading back to San Ramon.

As you can see by Bekah's hair it was very windy on Tuesday and us curly-haired chicks don't do well with wind. Jake eventually got soaked up to his elbows in that fountain.

There is a sign on that sphinx that clearly says, "Do not climb.". But it was just killing Michael, he wanted to sit on it's back sooo bad. With Mike wanting to climb everything and Jake wanting to go swimming in the fountain it was time to head home.