April in Paris: Voyager Avec Enfants (Day Five)

" A touts les glories de la France. "Coming into this trip, I scheduled two guided tours, and deliberately put them at the end of the trip. I wanted to leave things a little open-ended and less time-pressured at the start of the week, just to allow for jet lag and child recalcitrance and the general unpredictability of kid life. However, Idid have two organized excursions I wanted for us to do, the first of which was a bike tour of the grounds at the Palace of Versailles.Generally speaking, there ' s enough in the city of Paris to do with kids, particularly if you ' re only planning to be here for less than a week, as we are. However, Mack just finished an architecture unit at school, and for his final project he and his partner chose to do a presentation about the palace of Versailles. So wehad to go, if for no other reason than to let him see that Versailles did in fact exist outside of a book. (Oh who am I kidding, they probably did the bulk of their research on Wikipedia, because kids these days.)I booked the tour with theBluefox Travel Company, formerly called Blue Bike Tours. The instructions for the day were relatively straightforward.We were to meet at the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in front of Platform #1 for the 9:00am train to Versailles. Gare Saint-Lazare is a huge commuter hub by the look of things (think Grand Central, but bigger), and about 15 minutes from our apartment via Uber at that time of day. Being neurotic people, we woke the kids up at 7:00am (thi...
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