So our third day in Paris was also my birthday, and the one thing I wanted for my birthday was to ride bikes in Versailles. Some girls from our program had gone the day before and said they hadn't seen any bikes, but it had also been raining. I was holding out hope. When we got there I didn't see anyone on bikes as my friend Katie and I wandered the gardens. We had walked around quite awhile, all the way up to Marie Antoinette's weird village, and had seen no bikes. We left the village about an hour before we were supposed to meet up with our little group of friends. By that point I had just accepted that I wasn't going to get to ride bikes. That I'd have to come back some other time in my life because I really wanted to ride through those gardens. I didn't want that, cause I was already there, right then! I also figured that it would be just my luck, and the friends we were meeting would have found them, and we wouldn't have. As we were getting back to the main part of the gardens, we see our friend Brooklynn. ON A BIKE! She says, "Go get one! I just barely rented this!" I had a short pause though, because we didn't have that much time before we were supposed to meet our other friends outside the palace, and I hate being late and making people wait. But I said, screw it, I'm riding a bike. So I went and rented one and it was the best thing I've ever done! The sun had come out and the weather was absolutely perfect. We rode our bikes over fallen leaves on the ground and saw parts of the gardens you don't really go to on foot.
This picture was taken after the bike ride. Luckily for us, the friends we were supposed to meet had also rented bikes around the same time, so we didn't even make them wait!
It was euphoric. Made my birthday.
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