Versailles Palace

Saturday night we went to the Versailles Palace. Where the king of France lived. I couldn't beleive how huge this place was. Not only the castle but the gardens as well. I can't believe that people think its okay to live like this even kings and queens. This was unreal to me. But a beautiful place to visit. I definetly prefered the gardens over the palace itself. There is 250 acres of gardens, imagine that.

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Here we are in front of the castle

Here are the castle gates
A picture of one of the Queens.
(It's amazing how beauty has changed)

The Hall of Mirrors
(and Chandeliers, don't mind my earphones, I had to learn about the castle in English. I don't understand French)

The kings bed

Part of the gardens, I believe this was the orange orchard.

(I'm pretty sure oranges don't grow in France, so they were potted to be taken in during the winter. I hear we eat better thanthe kings and queens at that time. We can buy an orange any time of year even if they dont grow here. They had to have trees if they wanted oranges.)

Us in front of the gardens

Part of the gardens again.

The castle's reflection in one of the fountains/ponds out back.

Gardens

Castle with gardens

We walked the gardens at night something they only do a couple weekends out of the year. They have the fountains going with all sorts of effects. Lights, Coloring the water, Dry Ice, it was pretty cool. While you walk around they place music during that time.

The night ended with fireworks that danced along with the music. I've never seen the fireworks go along with the music before so it was pretty cool.

Also they had a fire show, Fire shot out of the ground also dancing to music. It's funny though, I thought they were just being picky about people stepping on the grass (because they were) And they had this huge area that was hard to get to the other side and they wouldn't let you cross the grass. Well it was dark and I thought, they wouldnt know if I ran across. Then all of a sudden fire shot out of the ground. I could just imagine running across and fire shooting right underneath me. I couldn't believe they didn't have signs saying DANGER, maybe they did and I just couldn't read the language.