Today we were able to get a bit of a later start so we were able to sleep in a tad. We started our day at the French open preliminary rounds. I have never seen a professional tennis match so it was pretty cool that the French open was my first one. I really enjoyed watching the women’s matches. It was so cool to see how many matches are all happening at the same time. It’s also crazy how distinguished the event itself is, even the kids in the court helping with the collection of the tennis balls had all may hung outfits and they all hade the same mannerisms. While we were there we also ran into recent Syracuse sport management alum Alex Guo! Crazy how we ended up in Paris at the same time.
Next we were off to Versailles! After the hour long train ride, we walked through a beautiful walkway of trees to arrive at the building. I was a tad disappointed to see that it is under construction. I am amazed by all of the gold accents on the gates and on the outside of the building, it’s crazy how shiny it is. I enjoyed all of the rooms we walked through, they were all so different and all very elegant. My favorite room on the first floor was one that had white walls and blue and and pink moldings all over the room. The back wall had a very large mirror. There were also a lot of rooms that were decked out in gold accents and even molding on the walls and ceilings. Once we got to the top floor a lot of the rooms started to look the same but almost every room had beautiful paintings on the ceilings. It’s incredible how detailed the painting are. I can’t even imagine how much time they took. Selby looked up how much Versailles would cost in USD today and it was $50.7 billion! We then got a peak at the garden-where the 2024 Paris Olympic equestrian events are being held- but we did not have tickets to that area. The peak of the garden we did see was really pretty. They had a huge fountain behind the building.
After Versailles, we all went to group dinner at 20 Eiffel. It was really good food and it was pretty fancy, we had to order our three courses a day in advance. Finally after dinner we went on our Seine river cruise. It was really cool to see all the stuff we got to see during the day at night. We were able to se the construction on Norte dame up close and the Louvre from the other side. We even got the see the Eiffel Tower all lit up. We did get very cold on the top of the boat! Most of us stayed on top if the boat and the others were down inside the boat. Inside they had audio guides to listen to as we traveled along the river. 
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