Paris part 2 Versailles

Let me start out by saying that we have TONS of pictures of Versailles so this is really the bare bare summary. We almost got lost taking the train there and were saved by the SWEETEST group of women traveling together. This was Camille. She reminded me so much of Auntie H with her southern drawl and all. She was traveling with her daughter, daughter's partner, and grandaughter. We had the best time visiting the palace almost the whole day with them. What a fun group!!

This is us before we bought our tickets with Camille.

In front of Versailles. The place is MASSIVE!!! And the gardens are acre upon acre. We also had our first "friendly" french experience here. We were in the cafeteria and had finally collected enough chairs and table space to sit with our new group of friends for lunch when a french man came over to us yelled something in French and took two of our chairs! Gotta love those "friendly" french!

This is us in the famous hall of mirrors.

Another very impressive room was the war room. They had all these HUGE paintings showing the famous wars of France. This picture makes it look so small but it was massive as well! The crazy thing is that they had an exhibit showing pictures of the realities of war in current times because all the paintings were really glorifying battle.

And on to the gardens which was my favorite part.

There were so many fountains!!

And the statues were all so big!

This is the main stretch.

And we walked what seemed like a mile to get to Marie Antoinette's little get away.

Little....yeah right?!

I really liked her "little" house. It was very classy and not super super gawdy like the palace was. Just french country.

This was a little pavilion in her "little" garden that would have taken us hours to walk.

Not all the fountains were on today. There were so many little alcoves of the garden to get lost in. We didn't even see 1/50th of it all. I loved it!

We did find our own little alcove in the garden. We found a bench to sit on and just relaxed. There was no one around and there were TONS of people there. That's how big the gardens were. And it was SILENT!

We couldn't get far enough away to get a picture of the whole palace. We could only take panoramic shots. So here is us with about half of the palace.

From the terrace of the palace.

I loved the design of this garden.

And there were all kinds of little terraces around.

After a LONG full day at Versaille, a train station closure, about 12 miles of walking including an long unexpected one to get to another train station, a train that was almost an hour late, and getting LOST trying to find our hotel after asking about 5 different people and them each telling us a DIFFERENT way, we ate dinner. We found this place that made crepes with all kinds of stuff inside them. We each got a dinner crepe with chicken and cheese and a bunch of other stuff and THIS was dessert. YUM!! God bless the person who invented crepes and nutella!