Wednesday and Thursday (Days Five and Six)

Wednesday we went to the Louvre and decided to pretty much dedicate a whole day to it. I love art galleries and museums so I knew I would need a lot of time there. When I lived in Portland one of my very favorite things to do was to go to the Pearl District and look at all the art galleries, I think I did that like once a month. Anyways, the Louvre is so huge we were there for 6 hours (that is not including our lunch break) and we still did not see everything. We got there early in the morning so we could be in the front of the line which worked out really well. As soon as we got in and got our map we went straight to the Mona Lisa because we figured that would be one of the busiest attractions. We were right. By the time we got there there were already a lot of people there but we were able to get up as close as we could. The actual painting was smaller than I thought it would be but it was really pretty. After that we decided to go in order. There were tons of huge paintings that were about 5 times taller than Mike. It was so crazy, I have no idea how they painted something so big and made it look so awesome. We also got to see the Venus de Milo which was really cool, everything is just way more beautiful in real life than it is in the pictures, they do not do it justice. We got to see ancient paintings, artifacts and sculpture's from pretty much everywhere you could imagine in the world. It was awesome. Another highlight was the Coronation Crown of Louis XV. They actually have the crowns that he and his wife were crowned with. The jewels in the crowns are so big they look fake and the room they were kept in was possibly the most ornate rooms I have ever been in. I really like that there was a lot of religious art too it was really cool. We had so much fun, we could have spent days and days in the Louvre and still not have seen everything, the size of it kind of blows my mind. After we were done we decided to walk through the gardens in front of the Louvre and that was fun we also walked through the Square where Marie Antoinette was beheaded. And I tried to take a picture of the outside of the United States Consulate and I got yelled at by a french solider that was guarding the place. We think there was someone really important staying there because the street was blocked off and everything. After that we just went home, we were exhausted from the Louvre.
Thursday we went to the Musee d'Orsay which is a more modern museum with more contemporary paintings. They had tons of Van Goghs. I love Van Gogh, I have a few prints of his in my apartment and a few books on him so it was really cool to see a whole room of just his paintings. We also saw a few Monets and Reniors so it was really cool. After the Orsay we pretty much did all of our souvenir shopping and walked around the city one last time.
We left early Friday morning and it was raining, it was a very sad day. We got to the airport in plenty of time and even got to fly business class on the way home again so that was like another mini vacation in itself. We had the best time of our lives and are looking forward to going back one day.