Monday, October 17, 2011

Sunday, October 16, 2011

GARDENS OF VERSAILLES PALACE









Versailles magnificent huge terraced gardens with their fountains and statues.



Unfortunately the fountains were'nt turned on until after we were inside of the


Palace. Shucks! I love fountains!!













A bit windy up on the hill! It was cooler & prettier out here no wonder the King wanted


to build a Palace out here. Beyond the gardens is 500 acres of forest used for hunting.


And what's pretty exciting now is that we heard right after our return home from France,

that a Temple for our church is to be built close to this area of Versailles!









VERSAILLES-SUN KING'S PALACE














Historic Verailles is the beautiful, restored palace of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
































What started as a modest hunting lodge was expanded into the world's most famous palace,






a model for the future European Palaces.














PARIS, FRANCE































Saturday, October 15, 2011

PARIS, FRANCE

The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of the" City of Light!"! I was just not expecting it
to be so huge! I was totally WOWED!! We only went to the second floor, but what a total
AWESOME view!!!


A miniture Statue of Liberty in the forground that the U.S. gave to France.

The tunnel where Princess Diana was in the car accident is not to far from
here & we drove through it several times.



We took a River Seine Cruise but were a bit disappointed & pretty glad to get off the boat since Paris was seized by an early heat wave! To hot! Glad to get up on the Eiffel Tower & a breeze. If you go, do it in May!!











Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orleans" is considered a national heroine of France & a


Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the army to several important victories during the Hundred Years War, which paved the way for


the coronation of Charles VII.