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To: username who wrote (7391)	2/13/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) of 71178

Several years ago, I took the boys to the Louvre- their first visit-and the most disappointing sight was the Mona Lisa. It's behind such heavy glass and it's smaller than one would have thought and there were huge crowds surrounding it so you couldn't really see well. But the most offensive thing was that- in spite of the huge signs requesting that you not use flashes- people were taking pics like mad. CW was a very self-righteous 11 or 12 at the time and kept pointing at the signs and giving people nasty looks and shaking his head until I dragged him away, embarrassed. Not to sound xenophobic (Ammo's latest favorite word-he manages to work it into the conversation several times a day. Quite a feat-think about it), but mostly it was the Japanese committing the offense. I wonder why. We enjoyed the Mus‚e d'Orsay much more. That might be because we somehow went through a door at the Louvre and wound up in a back alley and they wouldn't believe us and let us back in, which I thought rude. After all, they were doing a lot of construction and it was very confusing. And a nice American woman with two children never lies. So we got mad and didn't go back-so only saw half of it. The Eiffel Tower was also a terrible experience. Some Indian woman and I almost came to blows. Very pushy woman. And I ran into a traffic light and gave myself a black eye. Why do they put their lights on such low poles? I never saw it coming. Then I tripped over a cement thing sticking up in the street at the Place de Concorde and put a dent in my shin that I still have to this day. It was a tough trip physically. But thanks for the memories.

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