If you could meet one person from history...

So things have a tendency to ruminate in my mind. For the one of you who have been keeping up with my blog (and I think that person is my Grandma!), you know that I have been trying to figure out who I would like to meet. And now, I think I have a working hypothesis. I think it would be immensely interesting to meet Leonardo Da Vinci!
Just check out this quote: "I love those who can smile in trouble, gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection, Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles until death"
Some quick facts:
He is of course immensely famous for controversial paintings like The Last Supper, and Mona Lisa. I would love to sit down and figure out, who Mona Lisa really is and to truly crack why he painted The Last Supper the way he did. It took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips and he kept the painting with him until he died...
He is also the true "Renaissance Man" He was so eclectic having an intriguing mind and desire to explore--dissecting cadavers, inventing things. He is considered the father of modern science
He is the illigitamate child of a peasant!
He wrote most of his notes using mirror writing...some think to keep his ideas secret? Was he actually schizophrenic? Would be interesting to see why he needed to keep his ideas secret.
He invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road, and he sketched the first motorcar, helicopter, airplane.
He would wear pink to make his complexion look fresh.

Well those are a few of the things that I have learned about my new favorite historical person. So now, if I ever get that question again, I will sit back, ponder it for a moment, and then act like I just thought of him off the cuff and will extemporaneously recite a few facts that I just happen to know because I am so cultured...

Speaking of culture:
I am going to Europe for the first time in a few months. Gary and I got super cheap tickets to Spain from San Diego. We had actually wanted to go to either Asia or South America, but the tickets were so cheap that we couldn't pass it up!