April in Paris: Voyager Avec Enfants (Day Six)

The theme of day 6 was:less fartsy, more artsy.The second guided tour I planned for this trip was a family experience for the Louvre. Because the thing is, I was pretty close to skipping the Louvre on this trip entirely. Cal would have been in the bag for it (to a degree), and Mack may have been interested to see the Mona Lisa and a few other pieces of art that he recognized, though not that much beyond that. But Nina, I thought, was not the right age at all for a classic art museum. Too big, not interactive enough, too many people in the way, too many queues, too much walking--it would all have translated into: " When are we going to do somethingIwant to do? " in about ten minutes. (Maybe seven. Five and a half. Thirty seconds.) So...probably skip the Louvre this time around, right? At least until all my kids were older.The thing is, Cal just readThe DaVinci Code (yes, I know there is some weird pagan sex scene in it, but don ' t be scandalized and email me; I ' ve read it myself and I think it ' s tame and not gratuitous and also, I don ' t care) so he was actually pretty interested in the Louvre. He was interested in the art, but also, he was interested in the building itself, and the layout, and the logistics of the museum--how vast it is, the number of exhibits inside, the different styles of art in each gallery. When we were planning this trip to Paris, he specifically asked me if we were going to the Louvre. So after that point...we were.However, in an effort to make i...
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