We had already decided a long time
ago to invest in a two-day Paris museum pass. For 39 euro each, we get access
to sixty museums and can skip lines at many of them. You can’t see 60 museums
in two days, of course, but even just three or four museums makes the pass
worth it—especially if it helps you skip any lines, which ours did. It also
lets you go to a museum and then leave and go back if you get hungry or
accidentally leave (true story).
After a lazy morning (it took us
awhile to get our stuff together), we headed off on the metro to find the
Louvre. Using a Rick Steves guidebook, we figured out where to buy our passes
and also found an entrance to the Louvre where we didn’t have to wait in line
at all.
We swung by Mona Lisa, then spent
the rest of our time at the Louvre just kind of popping in on whatever exhibits
people wanted to see. Gooligan got to see her favorite painting again (of a
girl floating in a lake with a halo over her).
I really love statues and even
ditched the group for a moment to hike over to a different area to see the
statue of Venus on display. While the bodies sculpted are incredible with their
realism, what are most impressive to me are the statues with wings; the sculptors’
ability to create these thin detailed wings out of marble is unbelievable.
On our way out of the Louvre, we
stopped to take photos by the pyramid. They had these blocks people can stand
on and then put their hand out and pretend to touch the top of the pyramid. We
each snapped a picture, which took a few minutes, considering that you had to
have someone else tell you how to move your hand just right. They are some of
my favorite photos of our trip so far, though.
After the Louvre, we popped into
the Orsay museum, this amazing collection of Impressionist art, among other
things. Shannon loves the impressionists and I am really glad we got to see
them!
We stopped to eat dinner and were
planning on swinging by Notre Dame, but it closed earlier than we expected. So
instead we walked through the park and took pictures of us posing like the
various statues we passed. Best impromptu moment of our trip.
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