When I grow up I wanna be a Princess...

Today I went to Versailles. For those of you who don't know, Versailles is a palace in France just outside of Paris where Marie-Antoinette and other French Kings and Queens lived.

My French grandparents son-in-law took Luigi and me. It was really beautiful inside and out. We toured the whole palace and then walked some of the garden. It was freezing out and since it's Winter the garden was mostly bare but still beautiful. I wanna go back in the Spring when everything is blooming and walk the garden again. Here's some of the pictures I took:

The front gate

The Palace

The door to my future palace

Luigi listening to his virtual tour guide!

Minor obsession

Precious petite ones learning about Versailles

Hall of mirrors.. my favorite

Love this.

His favorite place... Ladureé

Part of the gardens

 

 

The end.

Versailles was really nice and Luigi and I came home and made a Mexican dinner which was delicious. Amongst all the great things I saw and the nice day I had it just seemed really dreary. Just one of those days when you wake up and if your socks don't match you wanna cry? My socks rarely match anyway so that's a bad example for me.. but you get the point. I was just overall kind of sad. I think the fact that there is never sunshine here is starting to get to me. And I've been here almost a full month so it's setting in that this is home now. Which I love but at the same time I just really miss a lot of things from America. Maybe I just had too many days off from the kitchen... haha. Good thing I'll be back tomorrow making Duck Terraine!

I decided to change my "Quote du Jour" to food quotes that I find and like. Hope everyone's okay with that. If not.. too bad.

Of course I'm going to start off by quoting my favorite... Tony Bourdain: 

"I have long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure." —–Anthony Bourdain

I couldn't agree more, Tony.