Versailles

The home of French Royalty, that saw Marie Antonitte walk through its halls is currently being restored.

You can see the incomplete restoration process here. This tour was much better than the pompeii one, since our guide was much more easy going. He dropped us off, and told us to be back at 11:00 and went away. :) Thats my kind of tour. We got an audio guide too.

The famous Hall of Mirrors. This will be my living room one day. Really.

I forgot what this hall is called, but it contained paintings of the history of military conflicts in France. Everything on the right was Napoleon pretty much. There was a special exhibit going on, where they combined photos of modern conflicts with the paintings.

"War... War never changes." - Fallout 3

I really liked the exhibit.
After the tour of the palace, our tour guide drove us out behind Versaille to see the estate.

It used to be a swamp, but the grand canal drained the swamp and made a wonderfully beautiful park there. We had one of our tour members take a shot of us together. It was windy that day. Clouds were rolling in. We got back to our hotel at noon. After a quick freshen up, we went to The Deux Magots.

This is where Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir hung out, drank coffee and developed ideas like Woman as other, radical freedom, and bad faith.

Then we went to an art museum.... when I saw this sign I got excited! Bring on the nympheas!

Aww.... they were just blurry flowers. I'm not a big fan of impressionism, but Tiffany really enjoyed seeing the very large panoramas of Monet's waterlillies. I have to admit, I was taken aback a bit by their size and the way they were arranged in the room to kind of envelop you.

We called it a day then. I'm still a day behind on blogging. I have to go through our last night in Paris. We're in London right now. Today is going to be a rest and recover day. Its nice that people speak english and we're hoping that the British understand the concept of vegetarianism better than the French.