It's True-She Follows You

The cool thing about being the persistent tourists is that hardly anyone was in the Louvre. So we could walk right up to the Mona Lisa and take a picture, when apparently usually she is surrounded so you can’t even see it. So we could walk to one side and watch her follow us, and then walk to the other side and watch her follow us-it is very true-haha.

Everyone had told me how surprised they were that the Mona Lisa is so small, that I must have pictured it the size of a thumb nail or something, because when I saw it, I was like-oh that’s bigger than I though it would be.

It was actually stolen from the Louvre in the early 1900s, and there was a world-wide search. Turns out the painting never left France, and a Louvre employee walked out with it under his jacket and kept it on his mantle piece for 2 years before he tried to sell it to the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence (where the David is) and was arrested for a few days but let out as a hero who tried to return the Mona Lisa to Da vinci's home country.