Today, the Louvre. It is big, rather big, really really big. And chock full of paintings, and sculptures, and gilded things, and various crown jewels. We saw the biggies - the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrice, the Mona Lisa. And some other things. The crowd scene around Mona was surprising. Most people seemed to be viewing her through a view finder or LCD camera screen. Many people were holding up their cell phones to snap the "I'm here" shot. Rather surreal, especially after reading "The Da vinci Code". Emma really enjoyed the venus de milo, but preferred the tile mosaics since they are closest to tapestries, which she's really into these days. We walked around the gardens in the Tuilleries and over to Rue Rivoli, where Holly bought a beret for Emma for €6.