Day 17. July 18. Paris

We had free time in the morning so we decided to sleep in. Linds, Kait, and Brady wanted to go the Eiffel Tour but I had just gotten my computer charger (thanks again mom and Bruce) so I wanted to try to catch up on things. So they left and Ally and I worked on our stuff. We met up at a group at 2:00 to take a bus to Fontainebleau. We got there and waited outside for Darrin to get out tickets. When he came out he said it was good thing that we didn’t go in there because there was a very attractive man at the front desk. We spent the remainder of the time trying to sneak a peek but couldn’t figure out where he was. Anyway, we went through and it was beautiful. It was another beautiful château but again it’s hard to take it all in. When we were done touring we met in the courtyard where there was a sorbet stand. I got apricot and it was fabulous! We got back on the bus and went to a huge grocery store where we all got food for a picnic. We went to a picnic area outside of Vaux. We had baguettes, cheese, meet, salad, fruit, crackers, chocolate covered waffles, and a twix! Then we walked over to the chateaux. As we were walking up to it you could see the flicker of candles in the windows. They put them in all of the windows. Usually they line the gardens with candles but it was raining so that didn’t work out. We went through the house. It was really prettyand as you make your way through the rooms it explains the story of Nicholas Fouquet who Louis XIV had arrested. I heard two stories about him. One said that Louiswas just jealous and so he had Nicholas framed and arrested. The other one is that Nicholas was the treasury of state or something and was stealing the money. The gardens were so pretty. They weren’t small by any means but they were small enough that you could really enjoy walking through it. We decided to do a video of us dancing on the steps. Even though it was raining we still had a lot of fun. We got on the bus at 11:30 and got back at 1 and still had to pack. But we got it all done.

This guy freaked me out. He was talking but I still have no idea how.