We spent one day at the very famous Museo de Antropologia. Now Bill and I had both been there before(not together, of course) ..... a long, long time ago. I had been there about 45 years ago with my aunt. So both of us spent about the first hour saying "this doesn't look like I remember it.... are we sure we're in the right place?........ as if, first of all our memories after 45 years had any shred of accuracy, and second as if the museum would have stayed the same over the past 45 years. I felt pretty silly when I finally found the "Aztec calendar" which, incidentaly, is no longer believed to be a calendar.
It is a huge museum and quite spectacular, but we could only see about half of it in the one day we had. As we were walking toward the entrance to leave, suddenly a bunch of reporters and photographers came running towards us, then past us and back into the main sala where the biggest Aztec exhibits are. We asked a young woman who was heading in that direction also what was going on, and she said "The queen is visiting". We of course asked, "The queen of what?", and she said, "Well, I think it's the queen of England." So thinking this was a pretty big deal not to miss, we turned around and walked back into that large section of the museum to wait for the queen. And wait.... and wait..... and wait.
Finally, after about 45 minutes we got tired of waiting and decided to leave again. Just as we reached the door, there came the queen and her entourage. It immediately became clear upon seeing her (very tall) and her outfit (very yellow and very loud) and her purse on her shoulder (not on her arm) that this was NOT the queen of England.
We had waited an hour to see the queen of Norway. Who even know Norway HAD a queen?
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