A Very French 4th of July

Happy Fourth of July! Today was a crazy busy day. Possibly the best one yet, mainly because my feet finally stopped hurting! We got up relatively early and made our way out to Versailles. Incredible palace. I didn't realize it was now in this small community town. I imagined it to be more in the countryside. I really had wanted to see the gardens of Versailles but they have recently started charging €6 to enter, so we took a few pictures in front of them and then headed to, get this, a Tex-Mex restaurant caleld El Rancho that was right next to the train station. Of course, it was no Ninfa's or Chuy's but it hit the spot. Bonnie, Jean, and Erin had been craving it all summer. After lunch, we went to the Louvre where we didn't spent a lot of time, but we were able to see the Mona Lisa and I got an awesome photo in front of it. Then we went outside and saw the famous Louvre pyramid and dipped our feet in the fountain, refreshing us enough to try and scope out the Museé D'Orsay, but by the time we got there, Bonnie had texted us letting us know that Van Gogh's "Starry Nights" wasn't there and that they were finished, so we headed back to the hotel to rest up a bit before tonight. Everyone went to the Eiffel Tower one last time while Bonnie and I went to the Seine River with a panini and sat and watched the riverboats pass Notre Dame. We saw these two old ladies had painted a picture of the scene and had it propped up against the stone wall. Bonnie complimented it, and then they took it over to a tree about 15 feet away and propped it up there with a stone. We thought maybe they were trying to sell it, or that they wanted us to take it. Unfortunately, they took it with them when they left. Then Bonnie and I decided to meet up with everyone at the Eiffel Tower, but we took the Metro in the completely wrong direction and ended up in some lower class Parisian suburb. It took us about an hour to get back! Still, a perfect last night in Paris.