See all those people? They're looking at a 2' x 3' picture. The Mona Lisa.
The Louvre was a ZOO. Had to be a hundred thousand people there, and most of them wanted to see the Mona Lisa. It was crazy. Elise and I went in, looked at the painting, and made a hasty exit. Along the way I did see a really cool picture of a guy flying a Jesus Kite:
After we went to the Louvre, we went to the top of the Arc de Triomphe, which was pretty cool. We then went over to the Notre Dame and walked through it. I lit a prayer candle for my mother's mother, who's been ill lately. I hope she gets some strength from the notion that there's a prayer candle at Notre Dame for her.
Then, we took the Metro home. Tonight we have reservations for dinner at a place just across the Seine from the Eiffel tower, and it's apparently one hell of a view.
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I've only been to the Louvre once myself; it's way too big--the Musee d'Orsay and the Rodin museum are awesome though. Some of the most romantic sculptures the world has seen are in the Rodin museum, and you can see the whole thing in a leisurely way in an hour and a half.
I hope you enjoy the rest of your time in la belle France--I just read the whole blog today so I'm looking forward to seeing the rest.
:)
I don't think I got closer than twenty feet to the Mona Lisa because of the insane crowd. And I seem to remember that you need to walk down the long gallery to get there; I figured they were weeding out the gawkers.
I did like the Louvre and spent an entire day there, which was easy to do. And I second the Musee d'Orsay, especially if you Impressionism.
You know, I think that Jesus kite picture is one of the paintings of St. Francis I came across while I was working on the art history unit for my students this spring. Weird.
I love the Jesus kite, that's hilarious. I think my favorite thing I did was watch traffic at dusk atop the Arc du Triomphe... that roundabout is total chaos. We must have seen about 20 almost-wrecks, but somehow nobody was killed in that mess. Whew.
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