
Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? I don’t really know why. Is it because it was painted by Leonardo da Vinci or is it because it’s all over the internet in different versions like cat Meowna Lisa? Who knows, but what I do know is that it’s actually a lot smaller than you think it is in real life. When you see it with your eyes with about 100 other people trying to do the same, it’s not easy to get a good look at it. So I basically ended up looking at the Mona Lisa for about three seconds then moving on to go look at some more paintings! I spent my day at the Louvre looking at old famous paintings and other types of very old, famous things. They had Napoleon the third’s bedroom and many of his treasures from his collection from other countries. For example, the Rosetta Stone, which was in the museum. In the five hours we were there, we never saw it. Though in those five hours we saw a lot of paintings of naked women (my dad’s favourite), even more paintings of dead and live animals from land and sea, and many paintings from the French revolution.

In our four days in Paris we did a lot of “hanging around” because my mom wanted to “absorb the atmosphere” of Paris and the cheapest way to do that was to go eat sandwiches in a park. While people watching, my mom said, “Is that the girl from Starwars? I recognize her voice. Look at her. LOOK AT HER!” as a lady walked by speaking English with an obvious North American accent and wearing sunglasses even though it wasn’t sunny out. My mom said “that is deffanitly Natalie Portman!” My dad argued, “Why would she be in Paris?” but thankfully free internet told us that, she lives in Paris and the article was only ten days old. Then my mom got up and creepily followed her while Natalie spoke on her phone. Coming back, she said that the lady was definitely her. Also, my dad felt the need to confirm that it was really her so he got up and followed her and coming back he said it was her for sure. Though, after confirming her height, once again with Google, we determined that we were 99.9 percent sure, that we just saw Natalie Portman. All we would have needed was a DNA match, which my mom was sure she could have obtained. My mom was going to take a photo but she decided to leave her to her privacy even though we just Google stalked her.
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