Sunday at Versailles

We got up early and tried to get to Versailles first thing. The first minor problem was the bus we were going to take does not run on Sunday so we had to walk a few streets over and catch a different bus. Then we got to the RER (train station) and it appeared to be closed. So we sat on a bench for a few minutes. I finally asked a worker in my very bad French and turns out we were just at a closed entrance - the rest of the train station was open.

We got to our train and to Versailles with little problems. As we were walking towards the chateau, Lori spotted a hop on and off bus. So we went for it. It was an open air bus. Thank goodness the weather was good - it was sunny finally! We got a short tour of Versailles which turns out to be a really cute town. There is an open Sunday market which looks good. Everything is pretty close together.

The little bus dropped us off at the entrance and we got in line. We waited for 30 minutes only to find out we did not need to wait. We had a museum pass for the chateau and we just needed to buy tickets to the gardens (usually it is free but they were running the fountains and music) and the Grand Trianon (which we found out is covered by the museum pass).

We headed to the gardens. They were playing classical music and all the fountains were going. It was sunny and getting warm and pretty amazing. We walked all over, through different little gardens. We stopped and had lunch in one of the gardens.

Then we headed to the Domain Marie Antoinette which was the house that Marie and hubby lived in until the Revolution. Marie also built a little hamlet and played a commoner in the hamlet. There was a beautiful theater and all types of buildings.

After the Petit Trianon and the hamlet, Lori and I separated - I went to the Grand Trianon and toured that and then I went back to the gardens and took more pictures of the fountains.