The Louvre

Saturday February 30th

Today was Kelly's mom's first whole day here. I tagged along with Kelly. Brittany, Kel's mom and aunt to go to some different places. Today we went to the Louvre.We woke up about 8, and had to meet her mom by 9 today. Kelly, Brit, Jen, Kim, Diana and I head out to meet up with Kelly's mom. Kelly was a little upset because Diana sort of invited herself to come along with us. Anyways, we walked to meet up with Kelly's mom and aunt. We took the subway to a part of Paris and went to a flea market. This part of town didn't really look like the best part of town, but we were fine. At the flea market there was tons of different stuff-- less souvenir things than i expected but more of clothes, shoes, and various other things. We walked by a place where they sold hats, so most of us decided we were going to get berets. We all picked out berets and went to go pay, but Kelly's mom said she would treat us all to berets. it was so nice of her. i wasn't expecting it at all. So we all put on our berets and walked around like true Parisians. After finishing walking around the flea market, Jen Kim and Diana, needed to go back to the dorm, to get their notebooks and passes for the Louve, so i headed wiht the reswt to the Louvre. We had stopped by Notre Dame first, and went inside as well. It was beautiful inside as well as outside. After that, we walked toward the Louvre passing by a food flea market on our way. We got sandwiches and kept walking. We passed by the river, and stopped to take some more pictures. When we were walking to the louvre a woman came to us and askedif we wanted a gold ring she had found on the ground near the Louvre. We are not stupid Americans- our first thought---- scheme. So Kelly's mom stared saying no no and shaking her head, the woman still chatting away-- "Look. see. real" pointing at an engraved ring. We kept saying no but she put the ring in Kelly's mom's hands and began to walk away. We all looked at eachother and was thinking like what just happened? all of the sudden,not even enough time later for us to say anythign, she came back up to us and was like " please give me food for ring.please. ring. food. please" Her mom just gave back the ring shaking her head, and we started walking again, while she was yelling, please orange, please food. please" all schemes. It was so random. While walking again, we saw a man in uniform, and a woman with a simple, flowy long dress on with a halo of flowers around her wlak, hand in hand, into a church across the street, after speaking to a driver that had stopped right by. It was so cute. It was such a pretty day too-- perfect for a wedding.

WE finally arrived to the Louvre. it was huge. We walked through it seeing famous paintings, and sculptures. We covered a lot, but not nearly the whole thing. It was a good day thought, and we saw alot. On the way back we went and got crepes, and went back to campus.