Museum: Louvre

Going to the Louvre is not something that can be done without a full nights rest, a full stomach and a couple of espresso before entering.  The Louvre is a massive museum that not only has art work in frames and sculptures on display, but also has intricately designed artwork on the walls and ceilings.  Ones head does not know where to turn upon entering a new room and must spin in a three hundred and sixty degree circle to make sure to see everything there is to see. The volume of historic artwork on display was astounding. Throughout our time exploring, we kept adding billions of dollars onto our guess of how much money sat on the Louvre property.  

When our day began, we ate a large breakfast and entered the Louvre. We headed straight for the Mona Lisa in order to make sure to see the painting and check it off our list of must sees. After walking several flights of stairs and what felt like several miles (there is not air conditioning available in a lot of the areas) we made it to the mob taking selfies with the tiny painting of Mona Lisa in the background. It is in a fireproof case about ten feet away from the rope that blocks anyone from coming any closer, so it is even tinier looking than it already actually is. 

After this trek, we were ready for another. We did not yet know how to read the map so we wandered around and walked up and down random corridors. It did not seem like it took that long, but we looked at our watches after a while and several hours had already passed! We decided to head to the sculpture section to see the Venus de Milo. Once we were done walking throw the sculptures, we decided to head to see the Apartments of Napoleon III. 

When we had completed half of the apartment tour, we noticed our blood sugar was severely low and checked our watches, another several hours had gone by without our knowing. We walked quickly out of the museum area and into the lounge/restaurant section to open our Cliff bars and eat them before we melted from exhaustion and lack of glucose.  We decided to take another run through the museum and look around before we left and found the Monet and other Impressionist paintings.  By the time we were done, we couldn't wait to find internet to find the value of the Louvre.  We looked it up, but online there are only guesses and estimations.