The Louvre

Today was great! We woke up and headed out to The Louvre by around 10:30am. Justine and Graham got in for free because they were under 18... I'm jealous :p It was pretty amazing. We spent the first couple hours wandering around: saw Greek and Roman sculptures, a bunch of Italian paintings (all of which were religious) and then finally made our way to the Mona Lisa. It was pretty cool, but the crowds in that room were rediculous. I thought the next room we went in was much cooler: the crown diamonds. There were more diamonds in that room than I knew existed in the whole world!! One diamond from a king's crown was 140 carats. The crown itself had probably more than 20 or 30 diamonds. Craziness!!!!!

We took a break for lunch ( at which point Graham got scammed into buying a bracelet that some dude made for him... although it is pretty) and then headed back in to see the egyptian stuff. I loved that part!!! The hieroglyphs and the mummies and some of it over 5000 years old!!! Incredible.

We did a little shopping at the touristy shops outside the Louvre, checked out the Palais Royal which was a cool little gardin/park and called it an early day. Since getting back to the hostel we've done laundry for the first time (yay, clan clothes!!!), cooked ourselves a real supper (spaghetti of course) and had a nap.

Anyways, my time runs out in 1 minute... gotta run
Kaila