The Louvre, Paris

I was so excited when we went to the Louvre. I could not wait to see the home of the Mona Lisa and many other fabulous works of art. I also was looking forward to comparing it to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.

The Louvre is huge and you have no chance at ever seeing everything in one day. So we decide it was important to see the 'must see thing' first before getting too tried and not being able to take in any more art. We went to see Venus De Milo first followed by the Mona Lisa. Both works of arts had huge crowds of people around them as you could expect. The Mona Lisa was behind glass so we could photograph her. I had heard so much about the Mona Lisa but it could not prepare me for how amazing the painting was. It felt like she was watching you from everywhere in the room. As if her eyes followed you. I was very impressed by it.

Me at the Venus de Milo
The Mona Lisa behind glass.Me and the Mona Lisa

After seeing the must see sights we then had a look at the rest of the art we were interested in. I did not really want to see the Eyptian Antiquities so instead we looked more at the sculptures and paintings. My favourite sculpture was the Roman Sleeping Hermaphrodite sculpture. From one side it is a woman

But then from the other side she is actually a he! I loved it. It was so funny.

After several hours of walking around the Louvre we were delirious and could not find our way out. It all became very funny and we were joking that we would become works of arts ourselves walking around the Louvre and never getting out. Finally we worked out where we were on the map and made it out.

That afternoon we just sat in the sun on the grass near the Louvre and looked at the amazing building.