Chartres

A while back we had our 3rd "excursion", if you can call it that. What it was, was a day trip to Chartres Cathedral. We woke up early to meet Chez Hurlbut, had a "roll call" which is a genius idea (buy one less pastry than there are people...don't be late or you don't get a pastry), and then headed on a short train ride to Chartres. I sat with Olivia and we played a game with our iPods called "try to match the songs so we're listening to music at the exact same time". It was really fun. Lots of boy bands and Disney music was listened to that day. This was our view the whole ride there:

Train ride lovin' with Noah and Kaitlin. 

When we got to Chartres, we had a tour from this delightfully British man who knew literally everything there is to know about this cathedral. The crazy part is that he claimed to not know everything, and said he learned new things about it every day. I guess that's totally possible, it's just that he seriously knew so much. Even little tiny details that the average person wouldn't ever notice. That part was a little long, and I accidentally may have dozed a few times...I blame it on the fact that it was super dark in there. It's a good thing I did get a snooze in though, because the next part was intense. We hiked up about a million stairs to the bell tower at the top of the cathedral. It was really cool, but the stairs were insane. I don't know how many but it was really tiring. The view was amazing, though you wouldn't be able to tell from this picture: (I seriously am still laughing at this...I don't remember making this face or being so completely un-thrilled hahaha)

I swear it wasn't THAT boring...

I felt a little bit like I was the hunchback of Notre-Dame up there, due to the bells being so close and how completely gross I looked that day...even though I wasn't even at Notre-Dame. After we got some lunch, we headed back to Paris where I probably took a nap. It was just one of those days.

Annie, Sage, Alicia, Lucy, Me at the top of Chartres

there really was quite a view.