S., age 6 of India left this Message at 4:26 P.M. on 12/24/08
Ciao! I have a riddle for you: how do you fit an inventor, a painter, a sculptor, an architect, and an engineer into a one-room apartment? When they're all one person: Leonardo da Vinci! As you can tell, I've just returned from 16th-century Florence, Italy, where I met Leonardo da Vinci. We hit it off immediately. He even let me call him "Leo D.V., Super-Genius," which I thought was very friendly of him. Even better, just for me he invented a pair of stilts that somehow makes you shorter. How cool was that? Ooh, I'll let you in on a little secret: the woman in the Mona Lisa painting is smiling because Leo had just told her to "turn that frown upside-down!" How's that for a hot fact? And one last note about Leo's mirror writing. His favorite backward sentence was "!truh seye yM !sdrawkcab sgniht daer ot drah ti si yoB" Ciao again!