Saturday at the Louvre.
The day began with our usual breakfast and then we caught a metro at 1pm to the Louvre.
Our plan was to see the three masterpieces: Mona, Winged Victory and Venus....
We saw all three in about one hour. The girls were intrigued, but not as much as by all the Egyptian artefacts. Emily and Sarah, thanks to Ms. Verlet and Sarah's CTY/JHU, could have been docents...well not really. But it was great.

We stopped for lunch in one of the cafes at the Louvre...and had sandwiches and Orangina.
Exit the Louvre via the gift shop and onto the Rue de Rivoli.

We walk along the Tulleries to WH Smith, the British bookstore. Sarah needs a new book. So does Marc. Sarah buys Emma (Jane Austin) and Marc finds nothing...just looks at Paris travel books. Marc has spent the last 7 days reading and re-reading every travel book they have in this apartment. They have about 50 or so books on Paris and environs. Food books, shopping books, guide books, literary books. Anything with Paris in the title, they have it here.

We walk on Rue de Rivoli, shop a bit (it's very crowded today...it's Saturday...almost as crowded as the rooms at Versailles). Metro home: Chatelet to Odeon to Maubert Mutualite. We are meeting our friends at a Vietnamese restaurant on r. Dante tonight at 7:30.
More about that in a later blog.