Day Three - The Louvre

Nepoleon III's apartment - inside the Louvre. Just when I thought I'd seen the biggest chandelier ever, I saw this monster.
An interesting pose for a dead guy ....
What seeing the Mona Lisa is really like.

Did you know there's a grave underneath this pyramid?
1/16th the size of the entire building.
In case you didn't know I'm obsessed with Egypt. This is a statue of Ramses in a portion of the Egyptian temple they have at the museum.
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Day 2 we smartened up and ditched the car, or so we thought. We learned how to use the Metro, and it was definitely easier to get into the city. I recommend buying a day pass for however many days you’re going to be in the city. It is much easier that just walking everywhere – because Paris is huge, and you’ll kill yourself walking. You can buy a pass at any entrance to the metro.

We went in the Louvre museum. It was really busy, but we easily picked out the areas we wanted to see and targeted them. I would recommend renting an audio tour, because nothing is in English, and just reading the signs en Francais … c’est impossible!

Yes, we saw the Mona Lisa, and the Venus de Milo. The Mona Lisa was really cool, but waaaay too crowded. Remember the driving mentality? It was sort of applied in this situation too. There was no way we were missing our bike tour so we left after a little more than two hours at the Louvre.