Day 22: Jardins au Versailles

Grace and I were joined by Grace's friends Chris and Matthew for a picnic at Versailles today. I'm just going to post some of the pictures from our adventure. Lunch was fantastic (bread, cheese, grapes, pears, chocolate and water--what else do you need?), wonderful company, stimulating conversation, and punny joke sharing. :) What a fabulous day.

(Matthew, Chris and Grace at our picnic)

(View of the gardens from the top of the stairs)

(View of one side of the start of the gardens from the top of the stairs)

(this fountain reminds me a little bit of the scene in HP6 at the end when those scary beings are trying to pull Dumbledore and Harry into the water)
(LOVED this part of the garden. It's in the Jardin du Roi)
(Entrance to one of the smaller gardens in le Jardin du Roi)

(Even the "wilderness section" of the Versailles gardens had order; I think Louis XIV had a control problem...) ;)

(Humongous stump by Petit Trianon; apparently it was Marie Antoinette's oak tree)