So much for getting to bed early.

Today I finally made it to the Louvre! I've been to Paris before, but last time we accidentally went on the day it was closed and so we couldn't get in. Obviously. Anyway, that is what I did today. I was going to go there and then to the Pompidou, and then to the Natural History Museum (recommended by Meredith), but I am completely exhausted. CLEARLY that was too many plans for one day; and I have stuff to pack, I want to draw something for today, I need to actually drink some water and eat something, and I need to go to bed early because I have to get back to the airport tomorrow to meet up with the rest of my study abroaders.

THE LOUVRE AND SOME ART RAMBLING
AND LUNCH, I GUESS

I'm really glad I went here today. I've never been before, and that is just silly. The Louvre has three sections; Richelieu, Sully, and Denon.

I went to Denon last. It has all the really famous stuff, and basically everyone just goes straight for Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa. I was glad I got to see them in person, I felt like I was missing out before. The Mona Lisa was not as small as I thought it would be. It was a good size for a portrait, not tiny like I was expecting from all the bitching about how small it is. The only thing that was frustrating was that everyone had to stand really far back from it; almost everything else in the museum you could get close enough to to touch, unless it was hung high up on the wall. Anyway, I liked the Mona Lisa. She wasn't my most favorite thing ever, but her eyes sort of followed you around, and she glowed a bit. I was satisfied. Venus de Milo, I was neat too, and though you couldn't get too close to her, either, she was in a great spot and looked so majestic all lit up and standing on top of this big stone.

I glossed through (glossed over, breezed through?) Sully. It had the history of the museum and the medieval art stuff, and I just am not a big fan of medieval art.

My favorite thing I saw in the whole museum was this big marble statue of, I think, Artemis. She was reclining with a stag with these super awesome huge antlers and this curly-haired dog, and she was holding her big old bow and it was all on top of this intricately carved base thing. It was just in with a bunch of statues and architectural pieces and stuff in Richelieu, not out with the other big old marble statues in their huge-ass marble courtyard thing. (huge ass-marble??), but it was so beautiful. Stupidly, I didn't even take a shitty phone picture of it, and I forget what it was called and who it was by. Fail.

Also in Richelieu were the monarchy's rooms and various fancy stuff. I don't think I could've lived like that at all. I would've died of gaudiness. There was this entire desk, mirror, and chair made entirely of crystal and gold. Just a little bit overkill om the gaud.

Besides that, Richelieu had a bunch of paintings in it. Like, a fuckton of paintings. SO MANY PAINTINGS. yes. after a while they all just started to blend together, but there were these two by Franz Snyder (I remember because of sny/phi, go me) that were just so intense. They were probably my other favorite things I saw. One seemed to be a butcher and a table fucking piled with different kinds of meat. A dead deer, a skinned carcass of something, some meat...chops, I don't even know, just all sorts of shit. The other one was pretty much the same idea, except with fish instead of red meat. There were all these weird fishes on the table and spilling off onto buckets and things on the ground, and this really big one with a hunk cut out of it, and sliced pieces of something, and a crab, and a turtle, and sitting on top of one of the baskets on the ground there was this vicious looking otter, and there were these creepy cats trying to get one of the sliced pieces of fish, and a big wooden container of live fish.
They were both just so intense, and detailed, and kind of creepy, and totally, totally weird.

Anyways, I had major art overload by the time I was done. Near the end I was pretty delirious, and I was definitely meme captioning paintings and shit. I took this picture of this hilarious painting in which there is a man and a nude woman in the foreground, and these two fully clothed, majorly creepy guys in the background. It just looks like they were checking out the main woman's ass, and clearly this was SOOO funny I had to take a picture of it.
Actually, it's still funny enough.

Also, I remember I wanted to tell V to look up Pieter Boel (or Beol?) but I don't remember why. Probably did paintings of birds or something.

When I finally got back out to the middle bit with all pyramids and fountains, it was super hot, and almost everyone sitting outside had their feet int the water! I joined in, and it was so nice and refreshing!

So yes. The Louvre. Woo. Totally worth it. I also had fun taking the metro, and walked a lot. a LOT. And I got a lemon/sugar crepe and ate half on the way home, and half when I got back dipped in Nutella. Now I'm going to go get dinner somewhere local. bye!





DINNER

Tonight I got Indian from this vaguely sketchy, tiny little shop across the square/intersection. The people who worked there were really nice though, and it was pretty cheap! I know it looks kind funny, but the curry is really flavorful and the chicken is tender, and the samosa is full of vegetables and everything tastes delicious!

Also, Orangina. yum!

I do love me some curry.


TODAY'S COMIC

I am in Paris, France, I have done all sorts of interesting things today, and I made a comic about the toilet making sounds. Classy.


So then I made this one instead of starting my repacking.


And as a bonus, a picture of me. I like my hair today.

Big day tomorrow, bye kids!