Versailles Palace

Before we left Paris, we spent the morning at the Palace of Versailles. It's about an hour train ride from the city, but well worth it.

We had a general idea of where we needed to walk from the train station to get the to palace. We got to the corner that we needed to turn at and couldn't remember which way we needed to turn. As we looked around, this is what we saw. We figured it was the place.

Inside the main gate.
The Chapel room. This was one of my favorite rooms.
There was a statue of L'Hopital. Gavin was pretty excited. He created some math law, something to do with triangles? Gavin tried to explain it to me.

The second floor of the Chapel Room, where the king would attend church.

I wish we could have gone in to get a better look at it.

There was this really weird Asian pop art exhibit going on there. It was actually really annoying because there were weird art pieces in the middle of these beautiful rooms.

Each room had beautiful paintings on the ceiling.

The Hall of Mirrors, which is one of the most famous rooms at Versailles. Louis XIV at Le Brun to depict himself in different poses on the ceiling of the room. It was built in 1978 after the Treaty of Nijmegen was signed.

The Queen's Room.

The ceiling of the Queen's room.

The Crusade Rooms, which has pictures of the most famous battles of France.There were a couple hallways with statues. One of them had statues of French kings.

The back side of the palace.
Looking out over the garden. These were huge. According to the map, it would take about 60 minutes to walk from the back of the palace to the end of the garden.
The back of the palace.


There were statues all along the garden.


Gavin was laughing at me because with my sun glasses on, the leaves looked a lot more colorful and whenever I would take them off, I would be disappointed at how they actually looked. We tried to take a picture with my glasses covering the lens. This is what it looked like normally.
This is with my glasses.
The Petite Trianon
This was a buggy used for one of her kids.
The Salon.
The dining room.

Some of the original china.
We were told by a friend that the gardens by Marie Antoinette's estate were prettier than the Versailles Gardens, which they were.

One of the cottages in the Marie Antoinette's Estates.





The Temple of Love.


The Grand Trianon. This was built at the request of Louis XIV as a retreat for him and his mistresses.
One of salons.


Louis XIV's bedroom.
The back of the Grand Trianon.
The main gate of Versailles.

We really enjoyed Versailles. It was such a nice was to end our time in Paris. Everything was so opulant and grand. It was very incredible to see.