Ah. I'm embarassed. It's been two weeks since my day trip to Paris and I've only just uploaded my videos. The first one is of our cruise on the the Seine. We got to see the Louvre, the Ile de la Cité, some murals, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower.


And the second video is of my trip to the Louvre and my mission to find the Mona Lisa. It was my first time there and I had no idea how HUGE the Louvre is. There are signs everywhere directing you to the Mona Lisa, but what they don't tell you is how far it is! We walked through gallery after gallery and up staircase after staircase before we found it. I was expecting a bigger-than-life painting with a spotlight and guards on either side. Maybe they would also pipe in Nat King Cole's velvety melody for her. What I found was a rather small painting behind a glass frame hanging on a plain wall in a room full of other paintings. There was a massive crowd pushing up against the velvet ropes and cameras clicking everywhere. There it was, unarguably the most famous painting in the world. It was impressive and awe-inspiring for that fact alone. And yes, her smile is as beautiful and mysterious as the songs say it is.