The Louvre is iconic when you think of France, so of course it was a must do during my trip.  My wife and I visited them a couple times during our stay in Paris. We spent a day touring the museum and another day taking our wedding photos in front of them. So, I have very positive feelings when I think and see this building. We had our wedding ceremony in front of the Eiffel tower early that day and it was rainy and cold. We were freezing while taking our photos and the water feature beside us was misting us with ice cold water. But the weather actually helped with the photos because hardly anyone was around to be in the background. Seeing the Louvre was one of my favorite parts of the trip. 

It was very interesting to enter the main entrance, into the pyramid, and immediately descend down escalators. The pyramid and underground lobby were added in the 1980s to help with the influx of daily visitors. The underground lobby allows for crowds to gather, shop, and eat without clogging up the ticket collections. I thought this was a pretty genius solution, diverting traffic this way. You have to go up another set of escalators to enter the museum. There are also 3 smaller pyramids in the courtyard that act as skylights for the museum collections below. To be in the largest art museum in the world was exciting, especially since we were at the front of the line at opening and got to see the Mona Lisa before the room became swimming with tourists.