We received our jeunes amis du louvre (young friends of the louvre) cards a few days ago which allows us unlimited access to the Louvre. This includes free access to permanent collections and temporary exhibitions for one year. The great thing is it costs as much as admission to get into the Louvre once + purchasing a ticket for a temporary exhibition... so going 1 time easily pays for itself.
Oh and did I mention we get to skip the lines? Rock stars.
We gave the 1st floor a "quick" two hour run through yesterday only stopping to briefly see...
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| Mona |
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| La Victoire de Samothrace |
There are 4 floors total. Our friend Joel who won the Cite last year spent 8 hours/day for two months studying art work and drawing and he still did not see all of it. It is THAT big.
The lines were long, the galleries were packed, and if you stood in place for too long you were bound to get run over. I'm talking people herding around in groups of 30. It was like being at a rock concert. We are hoping getting there earlier in the day will help beat the crowd, but I kind of doubt it. Needless to say a "few" more trips are in order...
in other news...
Musée de l’Orangerie
Claude Monet's Les Nymphéas consisted of two oval shaped rooms containing four large scale works in each
Panthéon
Pantheon Underground Crypte
Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
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| the ceiling in one of the rooms |
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| my face in this picture sums up my experience here, but as it goes, was one of Andy's favorite museums |
La Prégrille
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| crème brûlée |
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| only in Paris is all of the recycling wine bottles |
Homesickness was in the air yesterday, and as embarrassing as it is to admit with all of the great food here... it was time for some greasy fried chicken...
And yes, I brought my own Tabasco sauce.. because whether you are in France or US, KFC aint got shit on Popeyes!
Actually, Carl didn't even use the tobasco because the KFC was so delicious on it's own... unlike Popeyes!- Andy
Lies!
Non... C'est vrai! (no... it's true!) -Andy
whatever, this could go on forever....
Wow! These are great pictures. Who invited all those people to see my Mona? I'm more jealous than ever now to be there. We're going to Belterra tomorrow. If I win a boatload of money, I'm buying a ticket to come there. My bags are already packed. Donna and Denise say hi--we're at my house for Chatauqua. Have fun.
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ReplyDeleteGet your butt over here! We miss you. All this big stuff up here at the art fair, and you ain't here.
Mammaw
Well, my investment at the boat didn't work out so well, so I guess I'll unpack my bags.
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