LOUVRE and a Meat Basket.

On Sundays, almost everything is closed in Paris. However, the Louvre, which is almost a village in itself is open. Today me and Katie went exploring , and here are some highlights. To get us started, above is a gnome riding a snail.

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tinsey winsey pocket watches.
seemingly a book, but actually a box. tricky tricky medieval artisans.
fire breathing dog on the ceiling.
found in the "warrior hats for true warriors" section
It was placed over the mouth of the dead for grecoroman funerary services.

this is a meat basket. Not at the louvre, but rather a medieval tavern like establishment. We thought it might just be for decoration? But as we watched our fellow patrons cut nibblebits off, we realized it served a practical function as well.

FIRST POST.

I am in Kentucky, in the wake of visa angst and frustration, but excited for loaves of bread in the park that will hopefully be in my belly if I can infact obtain my visa. Which I will. Of course I will!

So, let me tell you the story which inspired the name of this blog. When I was 15 I stayed with a family for 2 weeks in Nancy, France as part of an exchange program with my high school. The family had an eight year old boy named Richard. Richard would come into my room with a sly smirk and look around for a couple of minutes. He would then produce a sentence in english (which he was starting to learn at school), usually pertaining to the color of the furniture. The first thing he said was, "The chair is yellow."