hope diamond

My sister was in town visiting, and her first day here we walked around Chinatown and then on to the Mall. While heading down to the WWII monument, we passed the Museum of Natural History, and I recalled that there was something there said to be very big, and very shiny, that we might want to see: the Hope Diamond. I've lived here for several years now and still had not seen it.

We went up to see it, and I have to admit I was kind of expecting a little more. Granted, it was beautiful. It's such a deep, rich blue, but I guess because of all the hype I expected something a little more exotic (though that's probably more due to the curse than anything).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not turning my nose up at it. It was beautiful. But it's that whole phenomonen of having something so built up that it would have to have been boulder sized probably to live up to that. Ok, maybe a small boulder. And I also wasn't expecting it to be blue. I pictured it just like any other diamond. But in all fairness, it has been resized twice.

I have heard from others though who also expected it to be a little bigger. Anyone else? Or did it exceed your expectations?