Thursday, July 12, 2007

Paris thus far

Ok, so Paris is really cool, but there have been a few things that could have been better. First, it has rained the whole time! Not one dry day, its really sucked! Second, its very, very dirty. Its by far the dirtiest European city Ive been in. I say European, because New York is a ton Dirtier.

With that said, everything is going well. I did all of the sight seeing, which has been cool. The city is a lot like Rome where every where you look there is another historical sight, and something else to take a picture of: these are a few of the big ones. I want you all to note how good Ive become with the timer function of ,y camera, because I took all of these myself even the ones with me in them.
Yesterday I went to Versailles, and it was incredible, nothing compares to it. It was so impressive. The word Beautiful gets thrown around in this blog way too much, Versailles was truly beautiful. I think the garden was better than the house its self. Anyway, I now have a new benchmark for how much wealth I would like to have, and that home is the benchmark.


Today I went to the Louvre, and it too was magnificent. There was too much to even really see. Its like the worlds greatest art museum, and the Smithsonian all in one building that spans four blocks by two blocks. There was so much no one even noticed incredible things that in any other setting would be the main attraction. They have 5 Divicies, and countless other things.

As most of you know I am a frequent viewer of the history channel, and have watched my fair share of Roman documentaries. In these documentaries they always show sculptures of the people, because photos aren't available, fair enough. I think every single one that was ever shown on the history channel is in the Louvre, it was crazy, I recognised all of them, and was calling the Names of them before I looked. I thought that was cool.

They also had the royal crown jewels of France which was awesome. I found in a corner that no one else was going Napoleon's Crown. The actual one just in a dark corner, It was so crazy.

Other than that they had art from everywhere in the world, and had a lot of historical artifacts from around the world as well.

Even if your not an art person the Louvre is a must see in your life, it is bar none the most comprehensive Museum in the world, or at least that Ive ever seen.

Well I'm not sure whats up tomorrow, the day after is Bastille day, and then I'm off to Brussels. So, well see what happens.

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