tour louvre

Sometimes I feel like I'm not taking advantage of all this city has to offer. All the weekdays I have available to visit museums are normally spent doing other things. I've just never been too intrigued by museums or history, honestly. After moving to a country where a sign of history can be seen at every corner, I was kind of embarrassed by my lack of knowledge. But I think we are all entitled to be uninterested or unknowledgeable in things.

While we've been here, we've made some really great friends. One of my friends gives tours of the Louvre, one of the world's largest museums, to English speaking families (usually with small children). She has scavenger hunts and activities for children to participate in while she's teaching them around the museum. The company she works for just created a new tour for older children, ages 12-15, and she was assigned to give the tour for the first time so she asked for some guinea pigs. Thinking about being in the museum for three (or more) hours gave me the shakes, but I didn't have a good excuse to decline. Two of us followed Mallory through the museum intently listening to all she shared, while completing a "quest." Being a history lover and previously a teacher, she had so much knowledge about SO MUCH! It was fun! I'm not sure you could ever see every inch of that museum, but we covered a lot of ground and I learned a lot. I'll mark a free tour down as taking advantage!