Weekend Excursion

Today we had an excursion to Barbizon and Vaux le Vicomte, where we had way too much time at Vaux le Vicomte and way too little time at Barbizon.

Barbizon was this adorable little village that I am totally going to retire at. There were quite a few art galleries and museums that we didn't have enough time to go into.

Vaux le Vicomte is the chateau that Versailles was modeled after, and Nicolas Fouquet, its builder, was imprisoned for his entire life because Louis XIV was so jealous of his palace. It was nice, but we got there at like 5:30 and couldn't go into the chateau until 8 (awesome planning!) so we kind of mulled around the garden for several hours. When we finally did get into the chateau, we had to pretty much sprint through it in order to be back on the bus by 9. But it was still beautiful, and it was nice to spend time in the garden even if it was kind of excessive. The chateau was supposed to be fully candle-lit but we didn't get to fully experience it because it wasn't very dark when we left.

Then we proceeded to be American tourists and stop our bus at a McDonald's and rush in as one huge group. A lot of people in the group were kind of offended that we are in Paris and were wasting a meal at McDonald's but like...who can be mad at McDonald's? Plus I was hungry so shut up.

In other news, my "I Have 25 Euros in my Wallet etc." game went pretty well even though I had to hit the ATM for more money yesterday. But the game commences again on Monday, so be there.