Pacific Science Center

The Dead Sea Scrolls are currently on display at the Pacific Science Center in downtown Seattle. This morning the older members of our family (everyone except the two youngest) tried to take advantage of this once in a lifetime opportunity to see these amazing artifacts.

Because we have so many people in our family, the cost savings conveyed by owning a membership when buying tickets to see the scrolls are almost sufficient to pay for one. For only a few dollars more than we would have paid to simply see the scrolls we were able to purchase a full year of admittance to one of the best museums in town.

Unfortunatelly, all of the daytime showings were sold out. While Dad waited in line to buy tickets for this evening, Emily, Arita and utilized our newly purchased membership to checkout a display of animatronic dinosaurs in the room next to the ticket line.

I snapped a few pictures, to make sure my camera (which also serves as a phone in Japan) was working properly with my new memory card. As you can see from the pictures I'll be posting soon.

After three months of waiting to buy a new digi-camera, now that the time has come to do so, I'm too cheap.

Update:
We just got back from seeing the scrolls. They were amazing and well worth our time. I was fascinated and awe-struck as I gazed on fragments of scripture copied by hand around the time of Christ's birth. The most amazing to me was a part of the oldest copy of Psalm 119 in existence. The letters on the parchment were as clear as those on the pages of the novel I was reading this afternoon. I was able to look at the scroll and see the changes of script every time God was mentioned. It was truly a thrilling, once in a lifetime experience.

Unfortunately, there were no cameras of any variety allowed in the exhibit.