In the City of Lights: Le Louvre

Museums in Paris are free every first sunday of the month, got to love that about the french! I think it is such a good thing to do, it encourages people to get cultured. I had been meaning to take advantage of this day but I always kept forgetting! But finally, I was able to go this month and decided to go to the Louvre.

I had planned that I would go super early so I can do the whole museum, or at least attempt to. However, I ended up going only for 2 hours.

I can't believe how exhausting it was! I really thought I would have more patience/energy but I obviously forgot that the Louvre is huge, you definitely need several visits if you actually want to see all of it. I wanted to do the whole tour of the Louvre even if I had to go several times, but after sunday I am thinking twice about it haha. I mean, I don't need to see all of the Louvre, I won't even remember all of the art I'll see. I decided on Sunday that I was going to do one section of the Louvre, starting with Napoleon's Appartments. As I finished that floor of that section of the Louvre I realized it would be impossible to do even just one section of the Louvre in 3 hours (I failed to go early in the morning, I ended up getting inside the museum at 3pm), so I looked at the map and decided to go see the paintings that were written on the museum plan (I figured that they must be famous enough to be the ones mentioned and showed were exactly they are). I however didn't pay a visit to dear Mona Lisa, since I had already done so on Thursday with the oldest kid (lucky for me it was also free entrance on Thursday, thank God because we only went for like 30 min. the kid only wanted to go see the Mona Lisa and then asked me like 5 times to go to the gift shop).

Here are some of the paintings/sculptures I saw...