Paris: the Mona Lisa

Yes, it's an entire blog post dedicated to one painting. We'll cover the rest of the Louvre in a future post.

On our first full day in Paris, we woke up at 6:00 AM, which felt like 11:00 PM back home, to get some breakfast and to see the most famous painting in the world.

We hired a tour guide who took a lot of pride in getting his customers to the famously crowded room to see the Mona Lisa before everybody else. We, along with one other guy in our group, were the very first museum visitors to see it! This wide shot is a bit of a flex:

Here's what the rush to get there looked like:

On the left we have Veronica in 2012, at the French festival in Santa Barbara. The photo on the right feels like the fulfillment of a goal in life:

If you want to jump back fourteen and a half years, Veronica was here before she was born, during my and R's babymoon. You can see we didn't beat the rush that time:

Here's another one I like, bringing it back to the modern age: