Paris: Days 6 & 7

Versailles. We had planned on waking up and getting to Versailles as early as possible. After our exhaustive Friday, waking up early proved to be impossible, so we took our sweet time pressing snooze.

Also, I had decided that I was in desperate need of an egg for breakfast (enough bread/pastry, I want to eat again in 10 minutes) with preferably some sort of bacon or sausage, so I made the call to hit up the neighborhood McDonald's again. You would do it too if a little quiche wasn't at your disposal and you were lacking protein. Trust me.

So off we went to Versailles:

(This was taken primarily for future reference -- I like the basket weave pattern of the boards)

Versailles ate up the majority of Saturday, and after attempting to walk a good portion of the grounds well after the actual palace had closed, we returned to Catherine's after 9:00 to find another note giving us the house to ourselves. We ate about 8 pieces of toast each (dinner) and went to bed -- uneventful but pleasant day.

In the morning, Amy and I did a test run of our trip to the train station to buy tickets to Avignon. With the EuRail pass, only certain trains are eligible in France for us so we weren't sure what time we would actually be leaving France. Turns out, the only option for us was at 7:30 in the evening, so the bright side is that we had the afternoon in Paris to bum around. Having not planned on the extra time, however, we made it as far as the Tuilerie Gardens where we ate some lunch and Amy did some sketching. The weather had just started to turn on us over the weekend so walking around and sitting was not as pleasant as it had been.

Regardless, we passed the time and eventually returned to Catherine's for our things and hit the road -- leaving Paris after a wonderful week for Provence.