Oy With the Poodles Already: Les Chateaux

For our 4th excursion, we took another day trip. This time, to 2 beautiful chateaus! Yes, we got to go explore 2 huge palaces, and it was school. I'm aware of how magical my life is.

The first one we visited was Fontainebleu, which is where important people used to live. I'm really sorry, I am seriously horrible at French history. Too many Henry's and Charles's and Louis's. I have never seen so much decoration inside a building before in my life. It was weird to think that people actually lived here, because it just was so extravagant and seemed so much like a museum. In one bedroom (Marie Antoinette? Did I make that up? Probably.) I was trying to picture me living there. Sitting on the bed with my laptop, crap all over the floor, and I just couldn't even picture it. I'm pretty sure I could sit in that room forever and never leave and never get bored because there was so much to look at. It was amazing. We also pretended to waltz around in the ballroom and that was a lot of fun. I just want to live in a chateau, is that too much to ask?

seriously, who doesn't want that as their room?

that's just the ceiling. who even thinks about the ceiling that much!?

such a cool staircase

The second chateau we visited was Vaux-le-Vicomte. I was most excited for this one, because the gardens are absolutely beautiful, and I had unknowingly pinned a picture of it on Pinterest. I had decided to go back and look at my travel board and see how many of the places I had pinned I had ended up going to without even realizing. Well, I saw this pin and I realized that's where we were going THAT weekend! So exciting. Looking back again, I'm realizing we are going to even more places. How many people can say they've checked off places on their Pinterest board?! Anyway, Vaux-le-Vicomte did not disappoint. The inside of it is impressive for sure; it's huge. But the best part really was the gardens. They were enormous and so well kept. The designs they made with the plants and flowers are amazing, and we were lucky enough to get to go up to the top of the building and see them from above.