10 October 2012

< Paris//Last Day >

Day four/last day::The only thing planned for our last day was going to the Louvre. The Louvre, like pretty much all museums in Paris, are free the first Sunday of every month...so we decided to take them up on that offer. We checked out of our hotel around 10:30, left our luggage in our hotel's luggage room and made our way to the Louvre. We arrived there around 11am or was it noon? Can't remember. And we stood in line for about an hour to get in which wasn't too bad seeing as how long the line was. And stupid people would cut and join in in the middle of the line, stupid.

We finally got in, luckily it was a gorgeous day so we didn't mind enjoying the courtyard while we waited, and first went to see the Greek and Roman rooms. People are dumb sometimes....so many people were totally just in there to take pictures with the art...they didn't even look to see what it was or care what it was they just wanted a picture of them with it. Pretty lame and funny. I have no idea why people feel the need to have themselves in pictures with everything. Then we went to find the two things I had to see at the Louvre...the Mona Lisa and The Raft of the Medusa which became a favorite of mine when I learned about it in an art history class in college.

There were tons of people huddled around the Mona Lisa...since she is bite-sized. You can see her in a picture and in the video...but you have to look hard cus she is small. Then onto find the Raft of the Medusa which was large and glorious. Then I wanted to see some of the Egyptian art and artifacts including one that I love called The Seated Scribe, which is in the video. So now I have seen Egyptian art in Cairo, London and Paris! Feel pretty cool. ha. We saw a lot more art on our way out because the exit is the entrance so we had to find out way back. Clearly we didn't see everything in the Louvre since a. you would have to spend days for that and b. we had only so much time left before leaving to the airport.

We left the Louvre to go find some lunch...and on our walk along the river we ran into/came upon the Pont des Arts bridge! I had wanted to find it while in Paris, but it wasn't something I was going to search for...but there it was! Happy we found that, a great way to end our last day in Paris. Then we found lunch, hopped on the metro and headed back to our hotel to pick up our luggage.

The train directly to the airport was closed, so they directed us all to take a train to an area "near" the airpot then they shuttled us all on buses....like shoved as many of us on each bus as could fit and drove alllll the way to the airport on that crowded bus, not ideal. But lucky for us we still had plenty of time for our flight and we weren't late despite the bus fiasco. Finally, at midnight we arrived back at our home. What a long day!

Thus ends our last day in Paris.
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>>>M

3 comments:

Natalie said...

So did you leave a lock on the bridge? Thanks for the tour of Le Louvre...what an amazing feast for the eyes and the heart. I would LOVE to see all that art. Amazing.

Julene said...

jachen next to the statue head. haha. also, i would just like to say that those statues look fairly realistic. i don't even want to know how long the sculpture had to stare at someone's backside to be able to sculpt it to such realistic proportions. kind of creepy if you think about it. haha. just saying.

also, i like the lock bridge. i wonder who started it. does it say?

Julene said...

i meant to say "how long the scultor", not sculpture. i was referring to the artist who made the sculpture. not the sculpture itself. sorry.