Japandamonium!!!

So I’m at the British Museum again to try to keep getting work done. You’ll love this: tonight, apparently, is Viking night! There’s a program called “Young Friends of the Museum” or something, which consists of a bunch of kids from like 4-12, who come in once a month or so and sleep over in the museum, and each time has a different theme where the kids get to do all kinds of things involving the collections and projects and things like that. Tonight is Viking night; they are in the other side of the Great Court building longships, and I’m told that they had a battle earlier, with swords and shields and helmets that they made. Later they will sleep in their Viking-tents. I wish I were 12 again.

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New info: they will sleep in sleeping bags in tents set up in the Egyptian and Greek galleries, and they witnessed a battle by reinactors with real weapons and armour, and then got to explore the Viking camp that was set up on the museum lawn, where they could try on armour, hear stories, eat food, and all kinds of things. God Dammit, I wish I were 12. That sounds like the coolest thing ever. Oh, and those longships they were building? We're not talking pipe cleaners, we're talking huge wire frames and cardboard slats and big dragon prows and things. God. Dammit. What lucky lucky kids!