August 22nd

Sunday, August 22 we went to Versailles. The chateau was great and all… it’s kind of a “been there, done that” sort of thing for me.  It’s mostly full of furniture and a couple of paintings… whatever.

The most important part of Versailles is the gardens.  But security told us that our museum passes didn’t work for the gardens… which was stupid. They worked for the chateau but not the gardens. LAME! So we got drinks from the café and split up.  Shelby (now known as Spees since another Shelby has entered our group… she will be known as Dempsey.  We lost Dempsey pretty much as soon as we got to Versailles) and I walked around the outside of the chateau to the chateau of Marie Antoinette… seriously, so much cooler.  The chateau itself was not impressive, but the gardens were AMAZING!!!

Spees and I took some grapes we found growing on the vines and a winter squash growing in the garden with squash and pumpkins… sort of stealing, but no one else would’ve actually taken them… so really, we were just using resources available. (The grapes were ridiculously sour so I guess that’s karma).

On our way out, we were pretty lost, but we ended up being let into the gardens of Versailles through the back way… FOR FREE!!! This day just keeps getting better!

We got dinner in town at a bar and the food was alright, but the service sucked! We spent like hours there because our waiter never bothered to check on us to see if we were okay… which means we spent a bunch of extra time just waiting on the check so that we could pay and leave.  Eventually we got out of there, took the train back to the Notre Dame, and went back to our hostel for the remainder of the night.