16 Fevrier: you're jealous you didn't get the headphones : )

Versailles today- so beautiful. Although Tim and I were seemingly very confident in our RER/metro skills, and although it is our last week in Paris, we still managed to have some difficulty in getting there thanks to that damn C line that keeps looping around. Anyways, once we got there, we did make the revolutionary decision to rent the headphones with our ticket. Best decision of the week by far. I always want to get the headphones in various museums that we visit but they usually cost at least 5 or 6 euros. At Versailles, they were only an extra euro so we splurged. It was nice to finally understand everything I was seeing, or at least get a brief description of it. I've decided that cities should start making those headphone sets for the whole city that people can rent and just walk around and learn about everything they pass. However, after touring through the inside for an hour, we heading out to the gardens, not realizing that once you're outside, you must wait in the gigantic line again. So, we only got to spend a few hours actually looking at Versailles but that was fine with us. We still enjoyed it a lot.

After getting back into the city, we headed over to the chapel of the miraculous medal, a special trip for my mom. There was a mass when we got there but we still got a chance to walk in and see the chapel a little. I was able to buy a few souvenirs for my mom as well so it was a success.

On the way to finding the chapel, though, a funny thing happened. Tim and I were mistaken for Italians. Now, I realize that Tim is probably the one who caught the attention, because he does look quite Italian all on his own, but it was still fun to be mistaken with him. Not that there is anything wrong with Parisians knowing that I'm American, but everyone tells us that they can immediately tell when someone is from the US. They claim it's not a bad thing but little things give it away that scream United States. It was kind of fun to be thought of as European. Different, but interesting.