ze louvreeee

alors, hier nous avons visité le museé du louvre... nous l'aimons beaucoup...

i should write in english, maybe? ok, so yesterday we decided to have an artsy day, so we started at the louvre. the louvre was huuuuuge. ridiculously huge. exhaustingly huge. as we walked into the museum after buying our tickets we saw the winged victory, which was beautiful. then, we decided to see the french, italian, and spanish art. there was so much and it was all very beautiful, it was mostly paitings with religious themes. we saw the mona lisa, so that was cool, not as impressive as we thought it should be, so we wandered on... we went to the african and american and island-ish art, where there was .... an easter island head!! so cool. much better than the mona lisa. we were way excited, then went to the roman and greek art which was nice, greek pots and such.. and then to the egyptian section!! it was so excellent, there were sphinx-es and sculptures and sarcophagus-es and ahhhh it was so cool. super cool. i can't even describe it. then we went in search of the venus de milo and stumbled across the dungeon part of the louvre, it looked like a castle, super cool, there was a "the louvre during the war" exhibit down there, which showed what they did with all of the art during world war two, it showed what parts of the museum were open and what parts were deserted, it talked about the bunkers and gas masks that they had for the employees, in case anything happened.. it was an interesting exhibit, one doesn't usually think of what happens to museums during wars. then we walked up stairs and were greeted by the venus de milo, which was beautiful, i am just astounded by sculptures, the detail on them is just unbelievable, so after seeing that we went to see the greek and roman sculptures which were so exquisite.... after all of that art we were spent, so we walked over the the jardin des tuileries and enjoyed a nutella crepe by the fountain, we took the metro to go see the catacombs, but couldn't find them and ended up at jardin du luxembourg, which was beautiful and filled with french people basking in the sun, so we decided to join them. we walked to notre dame for mass, which was quite the experience, notre dame is huuuge. and i mostly understood what they were saying because it was french, instead of flemish like last week... then, we took the metro to montmartre to enjoy a nice evening out with a nice dinner, and to see the moulin rouge! it was a lovely evening, we ate delicious warm food that was made just for us... something we have missed very much, the vanilla ice cream with dessert was the best i've ever had in my life...

today was our lazy sunday, we took the metro to the arc de triomphe and wandered down the champs élysées from there, it was glorious. we went to louis vuitton which was out of this world. so cool. after walking down avenue montaigne, where all the high end shops are (chanel, dior, valentino, etc...) we decided that we have to go back tomorrow, as they were all closed, and it is our obligation, as girls, to go back and go in and wish that we could afford anything, or that we had boys that took us to those shops and would say " oh get whatever you want..." oh goodness, that would be so nice. we went to ladurée which is our favorite place ever. french macarons and petits tarts to die for. so delicious. then we continued on to a park just north of the jardin des tuileries where we basked in the sun. such a wonderful day...

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