THIS IS TO PROVE WE DID THE LOUVRE

They're so happy because I finally said we could skip the 548 galleries that we missed during our visit to the mind-bogglingly enormous Louvre.

This is the Winged Victory. I really like it.

This is a bad photo of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. It's bad because I was standing shoulder to shoulder, like sheep in a slaughtering pen, with scads of other camera-wielding tourists bent on proving they've seen the real thing, whether they like the painting or not. Despite the lovely name (though that's not even its real name and I've forgotten the real one, like most of you) I'm not a big fan of this painting. Grace had just read "The Da Vinci Code" so she was fascinated by the feminist details.

And here's Gloria's favorite part of our Louvre visit--the fountain by the pyramids. Just after I took this photo, she fell IN the fountain and had to ride the Metro home all wet. Ah, the memories.