Returning to the Louvre
This is actually one of my first scrapbook layouts cut into two 12×12 layouts. The text appearing on the page is below. Both photographs are mine and were altered through the simplest of photo software. More to come!
Text reads: Alan and I had both visited the Louvre previously but we had done it separately. This time around, we planned on visiting the Louvre together. Since both of us had explored the Denon Wing in search of the famous Mona Lisa, we thought we’d do Sully and Richelieu for a change. And return we did on our first afternoon.
The Hotel Westminster was just walking distance to the Louvre, and although it was a rainy afternoon, we took our umbrellas and walked to this must-see attraction of the City of Lights.
Like our own museums in New York, you cannot hope to complete the tour of the Louvre in one day.. not even in the two visits we’ve both done. So it is still on our itinerary for our next visit to Paris.
The foreground is a composite of two photos I took outside the Louvre, walking from the Garden d’Tuileries.The background is a hall that I have passed both times. Our first stop was still the Denon Wing because I discovered they had reinstalled the Mona Lisa in its permanent area. What you see here is the hall housing the Sculptures of Pre-classical Greece with the statue of BORGHESE THE GLADIATOR with his arm stretched up below. (Alan refused to strike the pose.)
