Paris Illuminations
Update:
We woke up, ate breakfast, and took off promptly for Versailles. Apparently, we should have skipped breakfast. The lines were huuuuuuge! First, we had to line up to buy tickets into the palace, then we had to enter a longer queue for getting into the thing. The place was pretty cool. I was very confused viewing the painting of Napoleon's coronation, which I'd already seen at the Louvre. One of the curators explained that there were two copies of the painting, both originals.
After touring the Royal Apartments, we headed out to the gardens. The fountains are turned on for periods of time during the summer, with accompanying classical music. It was very nice. Adding to the places we would visit if we had museum passes were the Grande T- and the Petite T-, along with the Queen's Hamlet. The scale of the gardens is incredible. I cannot fathom how many groundskeepers they must have employed to keep it all looking green and weed free.
After Versailles, we went back to our hostel, and booked places in Nice and Rome.
Paris Illuminations was pretty interesting. I was dead tired though, and started falling asleep. Probably one of the most expensive naps I've taken. Basically, the tour is a busride through Paris at night. You see the Arc de Triumph, Eiffel Tower, and various other sights in their softly glowing night gowns. The Eiffel Tower was notable. Apparently for the millenium, they set up a bunch of lights to go off all over it, creating a sparkling effect. They liked it enough to turn the lights on for the first six minutes of each hour, every night.
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