Paris - Day 4 - The Louvre

photo - Mona


We had a very leisurely morning getting up and getting ready. I think everyone is slowing down and the energy required to be a tourist is starting to wane, since we know we are heading home tomorrow.

I checked the Rick Steve's guide book one last time to see if there were any more sites in Paris I wanted to see since this will be our last day here and didn't really see anything else that caught my fancy. I had noticed a Calder mobile exhibit earlier in the week at one of the other museums, but decided not to do that. So instead we headed to the Louvre. Again, the girls were free.

What a scene! What a huge beautiful place! Lots and lots of other tourists for company. I noticed an Italian family I recognized from the day earlier at St Chappelle, so that was fun. We split from the girls immediately w/plans to meet later near Winged Victory. We had our compass and a map in hand of the place but it was still tough figuring out where you were initially. We did the usual Louvre highlights, Egyptian art, coptic art (coutesy of education from Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters), Venus de Milo, The Royal jeweled crown, Mona, Winged Victory, a few works by Vermeer, and then a chance encounter of a room w/Rodin, Talouse Lautrec, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Rousseau, and a few other impressionist painters which are always lovely to find and see.