the Louvre pyramid at night

the jet lag is gone. fully rested and and a new set of but the legs feel like I have ridden a 40 mile bike ride as they are weak and sore from carrying over-packed luggage from the Charles de Gaule airport on the metro to our hotel square d'anvers in the 9th arrondissement.
last night, after a consult with the Paris Zagat guide, we headed out for Cambodian, Le Sinago near where we were staying. the food was very good annd very autentic cambodian cruisine.
We walked around from the 9th to the 5th, latin quarter area. Paris is a city that doesn't sleep as it was about 2 a.m. and I was still sitting out on a cafe across from Nortre Dame with my a full glass of beer with no signs of calling it a night any time soon.
Paris at night is very beautiful. Couples walking hand and hand with more than the occasional stop for a kiss under some dimly lit street lanterns. I made a few efforts to keep up with the locals here, as I stopped myself to pull Michelle in for a kiss, though I think most were just like my wife and I visiting the romance of the city. If I could think of a perfect place for a honeymoon, Paris would be that place. Lucky me, I am with my with in Paris on our long awaited honeymoon.
The Lourve is much larger than I anticipated. It seems that it is twice the size of our National Gallery in D.C. and probably close to ten times the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lourve is much more intrigueing than both the any museum in the states. A view of it at might was mystical as I passed some of the open glass areas where I could peer in and see statues frozen in the limelight of the security lights scattered about. The pyramind itself, isn't all that interesting but the night and illumination of it and the water ripples forging to the edge of the fountains was a nice juxaposistion to the centeries old museum. The pyramid could have been like a modern heart holding the gateway to some of the greatest artists of our past.