A Trip back in time

Good morning or should I say good evening to most of you. It is now 8:40 on Tuesday morning. We have just woken up for breakfast and class at 9:30. This weekend was pretty busy and exciting. You have already read about our adventures to the castle on Saturday. On Dimanche (sunday) we went to Versaille which was about 2 hours away by train to see the palace of versailles. The palace was soooooooooo gorgeous and the grounds were GIGANTIC. You could walk endlessly through gardens by fountains in houses through mazes and so much more. If I remember correctly we stayed there the entire day from 10am until 6pm walking around looking at flowers, seeing houses. We visited the chateau which is the main attraction where all the important stuff happened and then we also visited Marie Antoinette's mansion. Her mansion was really pretty, small, and quaint. We stumbled upon a little fake village that was set up in the way one would have been during the time period where the peasents would live. The houses were so cute and little and covered with pretty colorful flowers. Each backyard had its own garden with flowers, vegetables, and fruit. In one of the backyard gardens there were raspberry bushes growing with fresh ripe raspberries so I sneakily picked a handful and we enjoyed them. They were so delicious. We also picked some fresh grapes but they were quite tart. We kept walking and ended up on some "farmland" where there were animals from chickens to pigs to goats and even miniature horses. It was so funny because one goat was trying to climb the fence to get closer to us, but we got kinda nervous so we decided to move on. I think it was because I was feeding it grass. I felt like I was back in Texas at that moment because it smelled like a farm.

After wandering around Versaille we headed back home on the train and went straight to the pizza party that the Virginia Tech sponser put on for all of us summer school students. It was really nice, there was so much food. The weird thing is that there is a bar on campus just 5 steps away from our dorm. The party was a lot of fun and it was really relaxing. Not much else has been going on since this weekend, its just a normal school week. Avoir for now