Favorite Pictures from my trip to Paris, France (September 4-7, 2017)

Jardin du Luxembourg

A woman making a perfume commericial at Palais Royal

My wife in front of the Louvre Museum

The Eiffel Tower at sunset

Sainte Chapelle

La Conciergerie- Where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned

Van Gogh at Orsay Museum

L'Opera (Opera Garnier)

Eglise de la Madeleine

My wife at The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile

Myself in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral

Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum

Eiffel Tower at night

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The Louvre Museum in Paris, France

If you go to Paris, you must visit the Louvre Museum, or Musee de Louvre in French, which is the world's largest art museum. The Louvre was originally built as a fortress for Philip Augustus in 1190 but was reconstructed into a royal palace by Pierre Lescot, Louis Le Vau, and Claude Perrault on August 10, 1793. In 2018, it received 10.2 million visitors, which was ranked 1st nationally and 1st globally. The museum has a total of 537 paintings. You can read more about the history of the Louvre here.

Review: The museum is extremely huge and there is no way you can conquer this place in one day. I was exhausted after a few hours here and my wife and I barely saw a quarter of it. It's the most visited art museum in the world for a reason and if you go to Paris and miss this place, then you haven't seen Paris.

According to the site walksofitaly.com, here are the top 13 paintings and sculptures that you must see at the Louvre:

1. The Winged Victory of Samothrace
2. Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss
3. The Venus de Milo
4. The Raft of the Medusa
5. Liberty Leading the People
6. The Coronation of Napolean
7. Sleeping Hermaproditus
8. Hammurabi's Code
9. I.M. Pei's Pyramid
10. The Lamassu
11. The Dying Slave and the Rebellious Slave
12. Grand Odalisque by Ingres
13. The Mona Lisa


Cost: 9 Euros. If you head there after 6:00pm on a Wednesday or a Friday, then the cost is reduced to 6 euros and the museum is open until 9:45pm. The entrance is free for people under 26 on Friday evenings. On Bastille Day (July 14), and the first Sunday of each month, entrance is free for everyone, all day.


Address: Rue de Rivoli. 75001, Paris, France


Here are a few of my favorite pieces of artwork at the Louvre:

My wife by the window at the Louvre

Liberty Leading the People

The Grand Odalisque by Ingres

This beautiful ceiling reminded me of the Vatican in Rome

The Mona Lisa

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My Crazy Adventure in Paris, France

Traveling is awesome but you should always be careful. I was debating on sharing my story to everyone because I felt pretty stupid and very worthless but after today's sermon, I felt like I should share it because Jesus really got us through that day:

On my final day in Paris with my wife after a 10-day vacation (Rome to Venice to Paris), we checked out at 11am. I was pretty much set on eating lunch and then getting to the airport despite our flight being at 7:50pm. Eunhee (my wife) didn't want to be bored so we explored one last area. We ate lunch near our apartment and I'm pretty sure I had my small carry-on bag (with my passport inside). We both had a suitcase and a carry-on bag each by the way. Then we took the bus to "Hotel De Ville" which was a popular area in Paris. 

Three possible situations happened. 1) Either I left my carry-on bag with my passport on the bus 2) I sat down to wait for Eunhee to look around the clothing store and I left it there or 3) Someone snagged it after I put it down while I was looking at my phone. I honestly have no idea what happened to my bag. After Eunhee looked around the store, we went to a cafe so I could wait for here there while she did more shopping. Then as soon as we walked into the cafe, I noticed that I didn't have my bag and I started to freak out inside. 

A very nice woman at the cafe called three places (a restaurant and two stores) that we were at previously and they didn't see it which leads me to believe that I left it on the bus. By this time it was 2:30pm. We went to the police station to file the report. Then we had to take a taxi to get to the US Embassy (3:15). We arrived at the Embassy at 3:45pm and it looked as if it was closing. I called from outside the Embassy and the lady told me that I needed 122 euros to pay for the passport and 4 euros for the photo and of course I didn't have that much. She told me to find an ATM and come back ASAP. Me getting my passport depended on how long it took me to get the money. I got back at 3:50pm and the whole process took an hour. We left close to 5:00pm and we tried to find a taxi while it was raining. Impossible. We finally decided to take the underground which was the best idea with bad weather and a Friday night. Thankfully we got to the airport by 6:00pm, checked in and it was now 6:30pm. We were hungry and our boarding time was 7:20pm. We finished dinner at 7:10, bought some macarons for my coworkers and Eunhee's friends and then had to go through security right by the gate. We boarded at 7:40. PHEW. 

God is good and my wife wasn't angry at me. I felt pretty depressed until hearing a guest speaker at church go through some major hardships in his life but got through them because of the Lord.

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