Nanni and the Louvre!

Today was amazing because I got to meet up with my grandmother!!! She is the first family member I've seen in 4 months!! (Yes I call my grandmother Nanni; long story just bear with me!) She and her husband Jack are currently taking a river boat cruise along the Seine from Paris to Normandy. We met them for lunch on their boat today and it was fantastic! The lunch buffet was so tastey, but I was just so happy to see them! Their ship was docked right next to this beautiful park so we went for a walk to enjoy the gorgeous weather!

"Playing" chess on the top deck! If you look really close to the right (almost directly above my head) you can see the top of the Eiffel Tower!

One of the reasons I was so excited to see Nanni (besides obviously just missing her!) was because I felt her influence a lot during our trip. She had given me a necklace of Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, and I haven't taken it off in over 4 months. She also gave Connor a prayer rock that he's kept with him this whole time too. We also randomly ran into one of her friends in a bar in Amsterdam during a Patriots game a few months ago! She has kept in touch with a pen pal she's had since 7th grade from London that Connor and I met up with for tea last week! Who keeps penpals for 50 years? She's amazing and I'm so lucky for her love and support!

After we left the Seine, we made our way over the Louvre. We only had 2 hours there and I don't think we could've seen everything if we had had 2 months! We still really enjoyed it, even though we were a little short on time! Maybe it's because we've visited so many art museums, but I was especially impressed with building itself. Sorry in advance if all of my pictures are just of the ceiling!

La Joconde! Supposedly her eyes follow you no matter where you are so Connor and I wanted to check this and went to both sides of the gallery (spoiler: it was true!!)

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, which is a 2nd-century BC sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike.

Venus de Milo, which was created sometime between 130 and 100 BC and is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty (Venus to the Romans). And if you're a Disney fan you know that Hercules knocked the arms off!

I'm channeling my inner Athena/ Minerva

The Louvre wasn't always a museum; up until Louis XIV moved to Versaille, it was the royal palace. I was really excited to see Napoleon's apartments because they were so beautiful!

We're hoping to visit a few more places, but tomorrow night we'll be heading back to Amsterdam to collect our belongings and then finally heading back to the US. We're spending one night in Reykjavik to try and see the Northern Lights, but then will be back in Boston Thursday night. Since we've pretty much become the masters of European museums, it's really weird to think that this will probably be our last one... for now at least!