Hola España!

Today we went to Versailles!  The gardens were huge and amazing, going on forever and ever.  When I think about Baylor spending so much money replacing flowers and maintaining our beautiful grounds, then I have to look at Versailles and think much more awesome it is.  You could literally spend days wandering through the gardens, let alone the main palace.  Claire and I rented some bikes and made the journey a bit quicker but still spent several hours riding around (and still didn't see everything!)

I think my favorite part about today was see Marie Antoinette's estate and house.  Marie had very and timeless good taste.  I wouldn't say she was minimalistic, but much less lavish than the other chateaus or palaces that we've visited (including the extremely gaudy and excellent main palace of Versailles).  I found it refreshing.  Her estate was situated in the far corner of Versailles, surrounded by kilometers and kilometers of gardens and a farm.  The French seem to do a very good job at restoration making it look like the royal family from the 1600s disappeared only yesterday and were replaced by tourists today.

Paris is lovely, but I will be glad to leave this country and (sorry French people) replace it with a much better one.  Tomorrow we leave for SPAIN!  Estoy muy muy emocionado, I just can't even believe that this day has finally come!  I feel like I've spent every moment since I found out that I could go to Spain for the summer anticipating this trip and it's surreal that it's finally here.

I promise I'll post pictures when I can, and that time is not right now. Lo ciento.