Palace of Versailles

What to say about Versailles? Well, this place is HUGE. Huge doesn’t even describe it actually, it is gigantic plus enormous times huge to the 20th power!

We had a great time exploring the palace, the gardens and the property which literally goes on for miles and miles. We arrived at PV around 10 am after a very easy train ride and left at nearly 5pm, aside from a 15 minute lunch and a 10 minute nap on the lawn near a pond we were on our feet, walking, that ENTIRE time, and we didn’t even cover half of the place! It was insane.

The pictures are the best way to see the palace and the things we saw, trying to describe it all here just wouldn’t make sense.

After we arrived back in Paris we headed to our hotel–oh, wait, side note! On the train back there was an Australian/British family with a young boy around 6 who had the gift of gab. He talked, and talked, and talked. Well, at one point the window reflection made a rainbow and he said to his mum and dad “look! a rainbow! where is it coming from?”. They answered him, explaining the refraction phenomenon. Then the next sentence out of his mouth was “is this the symbol that is causing all of the trouble?”. His dad quickly changed the subject without having to acknowledge his question. I was shocked. It was so sad to hear the little guy associate the rainbow with “all the trouble”. I forget so often that we’re from California, always ahead of the times. Come on people, open your minds!

Okay, back to our trip! We headed back to our hotel, I took a 15 minute nap while Kevin did some dinner research. We worked up the courage to try a new restaurant, and away we went!

We were extremely happy that we were greeted by a friendly, English speaking staff who handed us menus that had English translations below the menu items! Score! We ordered and quickly learned that their translations aren’t exactly right on. For instance Kevin’s green salad with “chicken” neglected to mention the part of the chicken that was served which was the liver and gizzards. PUKE. And my california salad with “citrus” fruit was covered in pineapple, apple, orange, grape and some sort of melon. Ick. The highlight of the meal…the crem brule. YUM! Dessert made up for the dinner, or lack there of as they had NO vegetarian menu items! Overall, the food sucked but the service was great, ya can’t win ‘em all!

We headed to the Eiffel for our daily viewing after dinner, Kevin braved the creepy crooked elevator up to the second story while I sat beneath it and enjoyed the crazies running around at night. Yes, I did want to go up, but once we got in line with 55 other people to ride the itty bitty elevator, I decided I’d much rather take the stairs! However, the stairs were closed. Boo. Maybe tomorrow we’ll find time to hike up it!

Kevin said the view was great, you can check out the pictures and see for yourself!

That is as much as a re-cap of yesterday that I can offer now…going to go type today’s blog!