The assembling time was 09:30; at about eight o'clock Howard and I descended to the restaurant where there were other groups from China. While we were eating, Jason showed up with a anxious express on his face. He said he couldn't find his passport this morning. After discussing with Fey, he guessed that the passport could be left on the bus yesterday. The bus of today (and the remaining days), however, was different from the one of yesterday, so Fey had to make a call and saw if there was any clue about the passport.

09:00 am, we arrived at the parking space of Château de Versailles. Though I often heard about Versailles and read about it history textbook, it didn't attract my attention until we visited it today.

There is one interesting scene in the parking lot. As soon as we got of the bus, several black people carrying lots of souvenir swarmed around us and asked for some purchase. Fey said that we didn't have much time, so everyone ignored the cheap jacks and followed her to the entrance.

Chen is our guide in Versailles today. She gave us each a remote earphone that I found it fantastic. Because there are always plenty of tourists in Versailles, with this small gadget, we don't have to stick to her to hear what she said while visiting the Château. (watch the video)

We surrounded the miniature of Versailles and listened to Chen explaining that the Château was originally built on a wetland, and the area of it was much larger than it is now.

Starting from Upper Chapel Vestibule, there are many rooms connect in serious. Each room seems so splendid that artifacts decorate the whole room from floor to the ceiling.

Maybe it was too magnificent for me to find a specific feature for the rooms, and I didn't remember much of the history that Chen had told us. Actually, it was a little bit boring and exhausting walking each room by room; only the pictures proved that we did visit here.

This is a drawing of Louis XIV or XV. The light and shadow are place deliberately that it looks like it is a vivid anaglyph.

La galerie des Glaces. The back part of the Hall of Mirrors was in maintenance. Chen said that it took a lot of efforts to keep the whole Château in good condition after it had been destroyed in French Revolution.

Though this could be the only time in my lift that I visit Versailles, I kept wandering that could it be more fun if we were in the garden rather than exploring rooms of people that I was not interested in.

Unfortunately, there was no much time left when we finished the tour of the Château. Flora suggested that we still go in the the garden and take some pictures, but I didn't take that in consideration because it took price to entry the garden. Besides, the sky became darker and darker, and it started to drizzle. (watch the video: While we were waiting at the parking space, many of us crazily bought souvenirs from the chapmen. To my amazement, the chapmen could say some Chinese or all kinds of other languages.)

The restaurant of our lunch; it is just a couple hundred meters from Versailles, so we walked from Versailles to there. Chen told us that Versailles is not in Paris city.

Before the dishes were prepared, some of us took out the souvenirs that they had bought, and there were lots of kinds of "Tour Eiffel": the small key rings, the larger decorations, and even crystalline tower with flashing lights on it.

After lunch, our next stop was at Place de la Concorde, and this was the view of Arc de Troimphe from the plaza on the famous Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

It was very bad luck that the rain became heavier and heavier when we were on the plaza, wanted to take a picture of Obélisque. I couldn't believe it was sunny and hot the day before, and now we were almost soaking wet, so we had no choice but went back to the bus relunctantly.

The weather changed in an instant, so we could had the opportunity getting out of the bus, visiting Arc de Troimphe and the stores on Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

We went into a cake store, Laduree, and I bought a cake that I didn't eat until we came back to the hotel. The cake was squashed by then.

There are many outdoor café along the avenue, some of them seem quiet high-class and expensive such as Fouquet's in this photo.

Our ICRT DJ, Eric, finally joined us while we stop at Hôtel des Invalides. He is not as talkative as I thought a DJ would be, and I recalled that I had conversations with him no more than five times in the rest of the journey.

The grass land at Jardinn du Champ de Mars is not very clean, it filled with small litter, lids of bottles, cigarette stubs...etc. This was one of our rare group pictures we took on our journey, and it looked a little bit dim and heavy because of the gray sky.

I just wanted one key ring when we were at the parking space at Versailles (because I think it was quiet tacky), but the peddler only didn't sell me only one key ring. So I  bought one from Howard.

Imitating Jason's idea, I also shot some funny pictures of Tour Eiffel.

There were two choices for the dinner: the French seafood meal and Chinese restaurant. Ten people, including me, chose Chinese food because we didn't have enough money to pay for "delicious" seafood meal. Uncle, EF manager and DJ were in the seafood-group, so Fey had to take care of us at the restaurant. The Chinese restaurant was near Place Vendome, where many jewelry stores surround a bonze tower that is not in the picture but its shadow appears at the side wall of the building. The tower has relation with war and weapon, but I forgot the history Fey had told us while we were chatting at the plaza after dinner.. They said the seafood meal was not as wonderful as it cost, so maybe it was lucky to me to save €45 for later spending.