At the end of this fab post on our visit with Mona, My friend Casey is hosting a Fresh Face Blog Hop! Be sure to link up, friends!
And now on to the Mona Lisa. Seriously, she's the size of a postage stamp. Ok not *really*. But honestly, it's really quite small. I was surprise. She seemed SO much bigger in The Da Vinci Code, which, in all honesty, I actually re-watched SEVERAL times before our visit to Paris, just so that I'd be that much more prepared for the Louvre. But Sophie and Robert got it SO wrong. The actual Mona Lisa is so much smaller than they make her out to be, although I did totally recognize exactly where I was in the Grand Gallery because of the Parquet floors. When I saw the sign that said Grand Gallery, I totally wanted to run to the first painting that I saw to look for hidden messages written on priceless works of art with the black light I had strategically placed in my purse, or to look for hidden keys behind the paintings. I could be Sophie and Steve could be Robert, right?!? But, sigh, Steve wouldn’t let me. I swear, he ruins all the fun. And keeps me from getting arrested I suppose. Maybe when we retire to Paris is a few years, I get a job giving Da Vinci Code tours in the Louvre. I’m sure they’d LOVE that….
See! She's tiny! Impressive, but tiny. I texted my dad a this picture of us and he said he was surprised that the room with the Mona Lisa wasn't more crowded--so I sent him this one from the back of the room.
Tory and Jackson with the Mona Lisa. Jackson was less than thrilled since he wants to be an artist when he grows up and we told him we were taking him to see the most famous painting in the world. He couldn't figure out why "some painting of some lady" was so famous.
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I've been to Paris about 8 times, and not once have I been inside the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa. I was about to go when I was in Paris in April, but the crowd and the lines scared me so I went to the Musee d'Orangerie and the Musee d'Orsay which was spectacular nonetheless!
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