Venus De Milo’s Butt
You’ve already seen the front.
We took a day trip to France. While we were there, we went to the Louvre. It was the express version. The Louvre is an eyesore. They took this perfectly good palace, and built a hideous pyramid. I guess it’s supposed to be futuristic, but it’s just plain 
ugly. On a good note, you can mostly see through it, and see the beautiful palace that’s behind it.
While we were in Paris, we did the typical touristy things you’d do in Paris. We saw Notre Dame, Eifel Tower, Louvre, and the Arch de Triumph. When we took a cab to the Arch, I think I offended
the cab driver by pronouncing “Triumph” in American English. He kept saying what? When I pulled out my handy Rick Steve’s London guide (using the day trip to Paris section) and pointed to the name.. He kindly said, “it iz called ark dee tree-omph”. I responded… Yes, that’s where we’re going. It was a beautiful church and you can’t help get a feeling of awe. They also have the Magna Carta there. You can’t take pictures in that room, but it was still great.
At Notre Dame, they have a piece of the cross that Jesus was crucified on. At the time, the church took the cross and split the fragments to other churches or people that they thought was important. One of the pieces ended there, and they had an elaborate holder for it.
The thing to the right is just one of the thousands of things that we saw, but didn’t get a chance to figure out what it was.
I know it was an aggressive schedule, but it was just a day trip, and we had to squeeze it all in. We got the idea from our Rick Steve’s London guide. In the day trips section, there was one for France. We took the Eurostar train over to Paris, and it took just an hour and a half. Not too bad.
To finish off the day, we went to the Eifel Tower. This is my gratuitous shot of the Eiffel Tower. This is from Tracedero Square. If you’re ever in Paris, this is the place to view the tower. I wish we would have gone back for a night time shot, but maybe next time.
Honestly, things have been going pretty smooth since we went into sightseeing mode. Heather is almost over her cold and my back still hurts a bit, but nothing daily Ibuprofen can’t help.
We took a day trip to France. While we were there, we went to the Louvre. It was the express version. The Louvre is an eyesore. They took this perfectly good palace, and built a hideous pyramid. I guess it’s supposed to be futuristic, but it’s just plain 
ugly. On a good note, you can mostly see through it, and see the beautiful palace that’s behind it.While we were in Paris, we did the typical touristy things you’d do in Paris. We saw Notre Dame, Eifel Tower, Louvre, and the Arch de Triumph. When we took a cab to the Arch, I think I offended
the cab driver by pronouncing “Triumph” in American English. He kept saying what? When I pulled out my handy Rick Steve’s London guide (using the day trip to Paris section) and pointed to the name.. He kindly said, “it iz called ark dee tree-omph”. I responded… Yes, that’s where we’re going. It was a beautiful church and you can’t help get a feeling of awe. They also have the Magna Carta there. You can’t take pictures in that room, but it was still great.
At Notre Dame, they have a piece of the cross that Jesus was crucified on. At the time, the church took the cross and split the fragments to other churches or people that they thought was important. One of the pieces ended there, and they had an elaborate holder for it.
At the Louvre, we saw the standard Louvre things, like the Venus De Milo and the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa was hard to get to. You couldn’t get very close to it, and there was a huge crowd. I’d say that it was the biggest crowd for any one thing. Even the bathroom. The one sad thing about seeing the Louvre, is that it is so huge. We only saw a very small portion of it. I’m glad we saw it, but we could easily spend days there. Towards the end, we were just running through it, going that’s cool, that’s cool, want to read
what that’s about, but gotta go.
what that’s about, but gotta go.The thing to the right is just one of the thousands of things that we saw, but didn’t get a chance to figure out what it was.
I know it was an aggressive schedule, but it was just a day trip, and we had to squeeze it all in. We got the idea from our Rick Steve’s London guide. In the day trips section, there was one for France. We took the Eurostar train over to Paris, and it took just an hour and a half. Not too bad.
To finish off the day, we went to the Eifel Tower. This is my gratuitous shot of the Eiffel Tower. This is from Tracedero Square. If you’re ever in Paris, this is the place to view the tower. I wish we would have gone back for a night time shot, but maybe next time.Honestly, things have been going pretty smooth since we went into sightseeing mode. Heather is almost over her cold and my back still hurts a bit, but nothing daily Ibuprofen can’t help.
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