Rianna's Report

Hey,

it's Rianna it's really Rianna because I'm caught up to date on my journal . Anyway were in Ottawa right now but this is our last full day. If you read more of the blog you will see me as an Egyptian Queen. And  if your wondering why I'm dressed up like that it's because there was a lady at the exhibit and she was talking about how Egyptian women dressed.  They had a maid who helped them dress.  The dress was actually just a big square of white linen, folded and tied just right to make it look like a dress.  After they were all dressed up, all they did was sit and fan themselves - they didn't really do any work!  They couldn't really do much dressed like this because the sleeves were tied in a way that kept your arms downwards.  They also wore a lot of jewellery around their neck and on their head.  It was very hot and tight.  They also wore lots of make up.

We saw a beaded dress that was taken from a tomb and made again.  When you placed the beaded part over the white dress it would make the plain white dress look fancy.  It was pretty amazing how they re-made the dress from what was left in the tomb.

The mummies had their pets wrapped up with them, and chickens and stuff for in the after life.  They would leave food and jewels in the tomb, and then they would mummify them in fancy outfits.  There were 4 mummies in the exhibit, and you could see the body of one of them.