Day 4, Saturday, was our Versailles day!
We were excited to say the least.
My favorite part though, wasn’t the palace, but was something you may not have done if you’ve ever taken a trip to Versailles. AFter we walked around the palace, we walked down a beautiful road, with our colorful umbrellas-
to Marie-Antoinette’s “domain”. We were all so taken back by the beautiful fall, sheep and rosw of trees, it took us ages to even get there, but we finally arrived.
It would be impossible for me to talk about all of it, but it was really quite precious. And it was cool to see the textiles (in the palace as well) that we had already seen at Prelle 2 days before, and to know that we were looking at Marie Antoinette’s stuff.
She had this whole weird little village thing to herself. The picture above was the house she sort of hung out in I guess, but behind it was tons of land, full of all of these little cottage like places that people lived in, because she wanted to feel like she was a peasant. The area behind it is called (I believe) Marie-Antoinette’s Hamlet.
While we were walking through, I honestly felt like I was in a weird part of Epcot or on a movie set.
But my favorite part HAD to be all of the animals! AND I completed a goal of mine while in Europe:
I also pet a donkey. They were flocking to me. They absolutely loved me.
we also saw some other freaking cute animals and this little hay head was my favorite:
After Versailles, we went back to Paris, to the Louvre’s Decorative ARts Museum. My favorite (that day because Kara and I ended up going back on Day 5) were the old toys and the little music machines.
They were a little hard to photograph, because everything was in glass, so… sorry.
Kara, Caitlin, Lexi and I then ran nextdoor to the actual Louvre, but we only had maybe 30 minutes there, which we spent lost inside of the sculpture room before the museum closed.
We were all so exhausted that nothing too interesting happened that evening, besides day light savings time (yes, we got 1 extra hour in Paris).
It was a good day, and I got a good nights sleep that night.
We loved Versailles, as well, especially Marie Antionette’s estate and the Queen’s Hamlet. So fun to see your pictures of it, too!