my day with Mona.... :)

Today we skipped class and went straight to the Louvre. (btw, I had straight hair today J ) yay! We didn’t have to stand in line- we went first to look for the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo. We saw Venus first. The ceilings were so amazing in this place, seriously breathtaking! I didn’t know it use to be a castle with a moat and everything! There isn’t water in the moat anymore but it’s amazing how big this place really is. We walked for over 2 hours and saw so many paintings ceilings and sculptures, jewelry, Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc.

We finally found the Mona Lisa—it was a mad house trying to see her. It’s funny because I’ve heard so much about it as I grew up. Going to Southside Elementary we had a focus on art so we studied a lot of the works I saw today. It was also crazy because people are always like it’s so little once you finally see it. I’m going to attach a picture because it is small but it’s bigger than I thought it would be. Its just kinda overpowered by the huge wall it hangs on.

I finally got up almost close enough to see- I offered to take some mans picture because he was trying to do it himself and it wasn’t working too well for him. He was very thankful. He pointed to my camera and I to see if I wanted him to take my picture as well. He made hand motions to switch places with me so finally I got moved to the front! Woo hoo! It had so many cases around it so it didn’t photograph well and it made it less impressive to me. Still, it’s freakin Da Vinci, seriously…. I’m actually seeing this?!

We ate lunch at the Louvre, went to the gift store and then decided to leave and save the rest for another day. This place was so overwhelming there is no way you can do it all in one day and we were soo tired! We rode the metro for what seemed like forever, Therese ended up going back to the FIAP because she didn’t feel good. The rest of CHAT attempted to go shopping. NOTHING! I thought the shopping was going to be amazing! We got gelato and came back.

My feet have never been swollen but they were bad! We fell asleep around four and didn’t wake up until almost 11! Therese and I ate all the food in our room for dinner…. Clementines, Oranges , cookies, granola bars, gummi smiles. We went downstairs and checked our email and facebook then went back to sleep. Paris wears me out! OKAY, I'm leaving you with a picture of us waiting to get close to Mona! excited :)