Disappointment @ the Field

We visited the Field Museum of Natural History on Sunday. Yay, for
student-tickets. Deepti and I got in for $12, total. We spent a good
4 hours there, but were only really impressed with the dinosaur
exhibit, including, of course, "Sue, the world's largest, most
complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex." We did like their
stuffed-animal zoo, but after a while we got really fatigued by the
life-less stares all around us. The Grainger Hall of Gems was hushed
and quiet and full of sparkling darkness, but when we saw the Kohinoor
and read the fine print that said that it was a "replica", we made a
quick exit out of there. The Islands of the Pacific was a fun exhibit,
but didn't afford much depth (no pun.) The Africa exhibit, likewise,
was quite disappointing. There were lots of cardboard cutouts of
people, and signs like "I am Mmbato. I will take you on a tour of my
house, and show you the kinds of food we have here in Mauritania." It
was fairly juvenile. Ancient Egypt was a little better than that. A
bunch of mummys, a bunch of fake hieroglyphs, but also some authentic
stone sarcophagi (pl.?) and such like.