At last, the Louvre

After a rather busy weekend of sightseeing, the boys mainly wanted to spend time at playgrounds on Monday and Tuesday. Their favorite is a the Jardin de Luxembourgh. There are usually lots of English speaking kids there.












Mike and I were fairly busy on Tuesday with meetings and conference calls so Mike only had a few hours to take them somewhere (besides Luxembourg) so they went to the Palais Royale which has interesting outdoor artwork and gardens.
I decided to take Wednesday off so we could all go to the Louvre together. We all got audio guides and the boys did very well, Andrew was excited to see the Mona Lisa since he had heard about it on a recent TV show he watched. We spent most of our time in the Egyptian Art section, which Mike and I hadn't really seen before. We looked at some of the paintings in the section near the Mona Lisa, then went and looked at some of the decorative art and the King's crown. All of that took about 4 hours and we saw about 1/10th of the museum. The boys were particularly happy that they got to go and play with the sailboats in the Tuileries garden after we were done at the Louvre. Only a few days left in Paris!