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On Saturday we got up and headed out to Versailles. We had discovered on Friday night that, low and behold, our little hotel offered free internet access. So we were able to look up ways to get out to Versailles. We stopped, first at the grocery store and loaded our backpack with a large bottle of water, assorted European lunch meats and a couple of nice looking cheeses. We picked up some yummy looking cookies that we hadn’t seen before and headed on to the bakery. We picked up a delicious baguette that you could smell down the street and breakfast. Frank and I shared quiche and beinets and Haley enjoyed her donuts.
We again breakfasted alfresco in the shadow of the Eiffel tower. We fed the birds and enjoyed the beautiful flowers lining the walkway of the Champs de Mars.

When we were good and ready, we headed up the street to the Champs de Mars train station and took the B3 train on the RER line straight out to Versailles. Our museum pass gained us entrance into the apartments, and the chapel. When we finished that, we paid about 14 euros to enter the gardens. This ticket also included the 3:00 - 5:30 fountain show. They turn on all the fountains all over the palace - at least 20. It was so fun to see them all.




We ate our lunch out on the long walk to the reflecting pool. Lots of other strollers looked longingly at our fun lunch and we felt smart and happy!





















We then trooped out to the Petite Trianon where Marie Antoinette was fond of playing milk maid for days on end. Now, I should tell you that as you enter the gardens, they rent golf carts to get around. We decided that we really didn’t want to pay the steep 28 euros for the cart. But, we did learn a lesson…. If they are selling golf carts to get around - there is a lot of ground to cover. All in all, after going way back behind the Trianon to see the tiny working village - darling, we decided that with the walk to and from the train station we had walked about 7 miles. As Frank said, it was a good thing that it came at the end of our trip when we were more conditioned to lots of walking!

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