Le Louvre

If I had to describe my first experience of Le Musée du Louvre in a few words, they would be: breathtaking, overwhelming, nerve racking and gorgeous.  Le Louvre is one of the world's largest museums, with 4 floors broken up into 3 sections each.  So much to see!  Starting with the outside, the museum is in a great location, right next to La Seine!  There are many gorgeous buildings surrounding the huge pyramid (and the smaller ones, of course).  Once entering the Louvre, you realize the true power this museum holds.  The architecture is so detailed that besides the displayed exhibits, each room itself takes a good few minutes to look at.  We started at the Italian Paintings.  This section felt like walking through the Bible.  It was beautiful!  Of course, I also got to see the Mona Lisa.  Besides paintings, we also visited the Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities.  These included small sculptures, jewelry, utensils, vases, etc.  We also got to see tombs of the Egyptians and a lot of hieroglyphic stones.  Everything is so well preserved that it is unbelievable that these articles came from years and years ago!  It's also very interesting to observe the people that come to the museum.  There were many school groups with very young kids, as well as Asian tour groups holding up flags? Whatever floats your boat, I guess.  Overall, it was great and I can't wait to go back, especially at night when the pyramid is all lit up!

And of course the day I was prepared for the rain, it barely rained.  C'est la vie.  I can't wait until it's springtime here, though! I need the sun.  It's been overcast since I can remember.  I really hope the weather holds of for this weekend!  Planning on climbing the Eiffel Tower and ice skating on the first floor :)

I love the Parisian lifestyle.  Who else can say they visited Le Louvre after class? Not many are as lucky as me!