And this is where the trip starts to fall apart...
We started the day with a boat tour. (After having a struggle of a morning where nothing really seemed to be going right.) If any of you are thinking of going to Paris and have the opportunity to take a boat tour, skip it. Seriously, it's not worth it. Take a bus tour. That will help you figure out where you really want to go and if you weren't planning on seeing a sight or at least didn't want to go out of your way to see something, you will probably stop to take some picture and you won't have to spend more time there if you take a bus tour. Also, the water in the river is DISGUSTING!! It is straight up brown. I think if you swim it you would get a disease.
However, from the river there is a lovely view of the Eiffel Tower.
After the boat tour we planned on going to Versailles. Well, that's when things went downhill. First we had to get on the train that was headed out of Paris. Well, these guys almost pick pocketed my friend Megan. He was obviously bad at it because she felt him in her bag. She ripped her bag away from him and yelled and I almost felt worse for the guy. I thought she was going to deck him. Well, they were working on the tracks so we had to take a bus and then get back on the train. It was definitely a struggle. Then when we finally got to the Versailles station another struggle occurred. We needed to use our ticket to get out of the gate. We didn't understand the gate though. My friend Megan asked this guy who worked there how the gate worked, it was unlike any other gate we had ever seen before. He said "Where is your ticket??" But in a very strong french accent. Megan said "I want to leave the station. I'm not going anywhere else." Again, "Where is your ticket??" This exchanged went back and forth neither saying anything different than they had before for a good minute and a half until I realized that we needed our ticket to get out. Ana put her ticket through and she made it out of the station. Megan and I think proceeded to look for our tickets for 5 minutes, all while Ana is scared that she is going to alone in Versailles for the rest of the day. She actually yelled "please don't leave me here!" While all of this excitement is going on Eric is no where to be found. Later he told us that he "got stuck in a box" I had no Idea what that meant. He had tried to exit through the entrance. When you put your tick in the entrance 2 sets of gates open to let you into the station. He got trapped in between the gates. He finally got out of the gates and joined us so we could join Ana and go to Versailles.
Versailles is so over the top gaudy. It is all just a little too much for me.
Marie Antoinette and her 3 children looking very royal.
The very famous hall of mirrors. They aren't as clean as I had expected them to be.
A posed and a more nature picture of my friends and me.
(Megan, Ana, and Me)
On the way back to Paris was just as much of a struggle as getting to Versailles. We missed 3 trains just trying to buy a ticket because most people struggle to use technology. And then none of us had enough money in coins and the machines didn't take cash. Then only one person's card would work. Then we had to wait for 20 minutes until the next train came. But we were headed for food, so that what we focused on.
This is the cutlery you are given when you ask for escargot and foie gras. The weird nut cracker looking thing is for you to hold the snail shell so you can pull the snail body out of the shell with the tiny 2 pronged fork.
The snails were delicious!
The goose liver was good too, but I prefer snails.
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