Today I finally achieved a trip to The Louvre. The museum of all museums. Home to Mona Lisa and 35000 other pieces of art works. People say you couldn’t see everything within a day/week/lifetime. I have the opinion that it’s all down to how fast you walk and how long you scrutinize over each piece of art. I’m afraid to announce that I am most definitely a ‘Yup, seen it, moving on’ person…
A lot of monuments and buildings in Paris are absolutely incredible - the architecture never ceases to amaze me, but I feel that once you go inside, it’s rather disappointing. Most of them require you to slowly walk round in a loop round the entire building - whether it’s an art gallery, cathedral, or maze of staircases, and you lose the awe and amazement you get from it’s uniqueness when staring at it from outside.
But, it is a massive box ticked off now, and I can no longer be bullied by old people when I tell them I’ve been to Paris and still haven’t been inside the Louvre (really, I was very happy just standing beside the Glass Pyramid!). I went with Catie, who’s been there once but it proved extremely useful when needing a direct route to the Mona Lisa. Which, to my surprise, was actually WAY BIGGER than expected! Maybe because so many people go on to say how small it is, I was expecting a post-card sized canvas in a highly-embellished gold frame… so it was a lot bigger than I thought! And we also went to see the Easter Island Head, which I love purely and simply because it features in ‘Night at the Museum’. And after a bit more wandering around and admiring many more sculptures and paintings, we enjoyed a piece of modern art in the form of Starbucks. Really, making hot chocolate and Chai Latte’s is requires a great deal of skill, and I’m sure the Starbucks symbol could be classed as pop art - a big ‘movement’ in the world of art history.(‘Art is lost on youths these days'…)
Then we tired ourselves out by walking up Rue Rivoli, and all the way up to Galleries LaFayette to see ‘the one with the good ceiling’ (I love you Catie!), and check out the designer shops and beauty stalls in the woman’s department. And by ‘good ceiling’ she meant the incredible glass dome window at the top of Galleries LaFayette...
And a bit of a bonus… the dog has disappeared! I don’t think it was around much this weekend, I think it’s staying with Jean (pronounced ‘John’) and Sabine… but this is pretty good progress! Maybe if the parents could disappear too, or -even better- just all the mess! If the dog has died, firstly, the family have taken it very well, and secondly, couldn’t it have gone sooner?? I endure the damn thing for 8 months and a WEEK before I leave that’s when it decides to disappear? Just to relieve you, no I haven’t slipped cyanide into the dog water, and I highly suspect that it isn’t dead (the devil doesn't want his spawn back yet… *must spread more evil*), and the dog is more likely to be taking a nice vacation elsewhere. Hopefully for the duration of the week. On the down side of things, Marie appears to be taking on a 'gunna give you hell' act for me... We'll see how it progresses this week. Maybe I could tell her the dog had died!?! [Things NOT to do as an au-pair: lie about their pet dying to make them stop being so bratty.]
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