the lonely palace of versailles

VERSAIIIILLLLLLEEESSSS yesh. Yes, we took a train to Versailles today, which is only the GREATEST palace on the face of the earth. If you haven't seen Sofia Coppola's film adaptation Marie Antoinette, please watch it, and imagine me sitting in front of the frog fountain, basking in the French sun for the rest of eternity. No freakin wonder she was beheaded though.... that place is nuts. I would totally sacrifice my head for one year living in the Chateau de Versailles. No lie. It is hands down my favorite place (of educational significance) that we have seen thus far. We got to tour the Hall of Mirrors and the state apartments qnd bedcha,bers of Marie Antoinette and her husband King Louis XIV. Her original bed, that she gave birth to her first child on, is still there. Granted it is covered in plastic wrap but one guy going through near me looked like he really wanted to spill some soda on something really historically significant, so touche. In the corner of her bedroom, you could just barely make out the hidden door in the corner through which she escaped one night in October 1789 when the Paris mob stormed Versailles. No... way. The rest of it was amazing too... the gardens and fountains and ponds etc were much more amazing than I pictured. It was insanely fantastic. Then we went to some random museum in Paris which completely paled in comparison so whatever.... ;)