This Saturday, after joining Southern Mom for a pedicure and before dashing around town with Pete taking pictures of fleur de lis, Pete and I headed to the French Quarter to see the Vatican Mosaic Studio Exhibit at the Old Ursuline Convent. CS could not join us as he was pulled to Audubon Park to photograph our friend’s children for their aunt’s birthday.

The mosaics were beautiful and intricate. Here’s some pictures I took of a few that I particularly liked. And it was awesome that they were in New Orleans. The mosaics haven’t left the Vatican in 500 years and had never been to the U.S. Aren’t we special?? And the Ursuline Convent isn’t too shabby either. It’s history is pretty cool, and I learned as much (if not more) about it as the mosaics.

My only ever so slight criticism of the mosaics is that they were mosaics of other artists’ famous pieces (like Van Gogh’s Starry Night). I mean, hey, I couldn’t do a mosaic of a stick man drawn by a three year old. I am not knocking the quality of the mosaics. I was just a wee bit disappointed to be looking at art that I was familiar with that had been “mosaic-ed.” I would have much preferred to see the artisans original concepts captured.

All in all, Saturday was a very good day. Pedicures, history, art. What’s not to like?