7/2/2010 Friday
We flew from Paris to London yesterday – some reflections here that I found in e-mails to family that I don’t want to miss … (hope I’m not boring you with duplicate entries) …
We arrived in London last night. Paris had been very hot, and transportation around that huge city was complicated, so that slowed us down. We got to see a lot, but you could spend a life time there (and some people do!).
Josh read something that if you spent 5 minutes at every exhibit at the Louve it would take 7 years. We did visit The Louve museum, but it was so huge we only saw a small portion. We tried to get an English speaking tour group, but they were all full. We can say we were there, but we didn't really appreciate what we were seeing, not knowing what they were. We recognized some classic pieces, but I think I would want to start reading history books about the artists and the times they lived in. We saw the Mona Lisa, and it was packed and difficult to get close to, so it was kind of disappointing. The public was kept about 30 ft. away from the Mona Lisa, and we read that at one time an employee had stolen it and kept it rolled up under his bed for 3 years (I wonder what they did with that guy when they caught him).
We rode up the elevator of the Eiffel Tower on Nathan's birthday at his request. We heard that when Hitler was in Paris that the elevator malfunctioned so he had to climb up the tower to the top. And after he left an employee figured out what was wrong and fixed it with a simple screwdriver. Poor Hitler.
There was a lot of blood shed in Paris. Nathan thinks our American soldiers fought in Paris, but someone said the German's left here before we arrived. We'll have to get out the history books (or look it up on Wikipedia).
I’ll keep this brief, and post more later.
Todd
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