We drove down to  Santa Ana  and went to the  Bower Museum  to see the  Mummies Exhibit.  I had heard about this exhibit about 2 years ago from a couple of homeschool families who had seen it.  They told us is was better than the King Tut traveling exhibit. (Which is $75.00 a person!)  It was AWESOME!!!  The kids loved it!  I had to laugh because when we 1st came in a well meaning docent told us that the Kidseum down the street was more appropriate for our kids.  Little did she know we had planned our whole vacation around going to California and seeing this exhibit!  LOL  We ended up walking through the exhibit at least 3 times and listening to the audio tour.  My favorite moment was right after we arrived,  My 6 year old daughter saw a case with Amulets in it and said "Wow, look amulets!"  My husband said to her "How do you know those are Amulets?"  She responded..."Dad, we studied them with Mom.   We even made our own when we mummified Barbies!"  The kids really loved that they got to see real mummies.  They could not get over being able to see things that were sooooo old.