I Louvre Paris.

Hehehe. I hope that you appreciate my joke. I didn't spend too much time inside the Louvre. Its so huge it really would take a few days to see everything, and I don't have that many days off, so I would rather spend most of that time seeing the city rather than looking at paintings, although I would like to make a trip back just to go to all of the museums. I didn't take a lot of pictures from the inside, since most places they won't let you take pictures anyway. I saw the Mona Lisa, which was a bit of a surreal experience. There were a lot of people crowding around trying to get a look. It's like trying to get to the front row at a concert. You have to sort of push and squirm your way up to the front, as people get up there and look and then fight the crowd back out to the museum. I'm glad I saw it though, it looks pretty much as you would imagine. I went mostly so I could see one of the most famous things in the world. After I saw that, I decided that I wanted to see the Dutch and Flemish paintings from 18th century, since I like those the most because of the realism and the subject matter. This was one of my favorites. If you want to see more of what I'm talking about, your best bet is to type in Dutch Golden Age into wikipedia and surf around.

There are a lot of giant paintings to look at. Most of them bigger than my apartment.

Leading up to the museum there are large well manicured gardens and park space. The pathways are covered in gravel and white bug dust. By the time you have finished walking through, you're shoes are pants are covered. I took this pic on Sunday, so there were a lot of people out enjoying the warm weather and the park. The pictures came out overexposed, but it was a hot day, and there was a lot of dust being kicked up into the air.

There were a lot of people sitting around with their shoes off reading and just generally getting a little sun.