a veg life

(posted by Emily)  Friday 11 July Daily Step Count: 28,525 When planning our trip to Paris, there were two day trips we were interested in making out of the city. Our options were to see Versailles , or to go to Giverny where Monet's garden is located. In retrospect, we could have probaby done both, but chose Versailles this time. I said to Rick that now we just have an excuse to come back! Rick had done a good amount of research on how to be successful (and efficient) on a trip to Versailles. We wanted to be sure to be there before the palace opened, and knew ahead of time to expect some Disneyland-style lines.  walking up the road to the palace The first line we noticed was the security line--most everyone walking up to the palace immediately gets into that line, assuming it is the ticket line. We followed the signs for tickets, and didn't have to wait at all. I enjoyed the many stylized fleur de lis on the wallpaper in that portion of the building....