Paris, France

This morning we woke up a little early to go to Versaille the royal palace near Paris.  This little town holds the largest royal palace and gardens in all of europe.  We caught the train there, which only took about half an hour, and walked to the palace.  It was a very big place but I think that the lines were even bigger.  Cheryl and I were ready for the lines (or so we thought) when we arrived and very patiently waited for our turn with the ticket sellers.  This took about 1 1/2 hours!  We were still perfectly happy right up until they told us that we had to take our ticket to another line for people who just bought or already had tickets.  We found out later that we could have bought tickets at the railway station and saved ourselves some time.  This second line was about an hour long and brought us, finally, into the palace.  The palace was very nice and luxurious as Louis XXIV was one of the richest rulers in european history.  They called him the sun king because the sun never set on his kingdom.  The palace was great and all but our favorite part was the gardens.  It was the most well kept garden I have ever seen.  Just to give you an idea of the size, there is a canal in the middle of the garden that is in the shape of a cross.  This canal goes 1 mile north-south, and 1 mile east-west.  King Louis imported Gandoliers from venice just to give him and his guests rides around the canal.  It was a really cool place and must take a lot of money to keep up.  We caught the train back to Paris after we were tired of walking around the gardens.  We went back to the hostel, ate, and took a short nap.  Then, we caught the metro to the Eiffel Tower, right at sunset.  We walked up (just the first 2 stories, you're right Jules) to the second story and were lucky enough to see a big red full moon.  It was a beautiful night!!  Shortly after the sun went down we headed back to the hostel to pack up for our flight the next morning.  Ryanair only allows you to fly with a 15 kilo bag and a 10 kilo carry-on.  Unsure of exactly how much our luggage weighed we did a lot of reorganizing.  We were up very late, until about 2am, and had to get up around 5 to catch the bus to the airport.  A great day but we both went to sleep with a feeling like we were going to pay for it tomorrow.