Fontainbleau

Yup, I realize its been a while. Probably none of you noticed except for the mothers, but I am apologizing to you all anyway. The weather has been pretty not awesome the for about the last week, and so we have used this indoor time to our advantage, and have made some serious progress on the office. What I mean by this is, we have watched many episodes of the office. We are now proud to say that we have watched all of the first six seasons, and are breezing through the seventh. We will have finished the series before our departure to belgium on sunday. Yup, thats right. We are done with Paris, and will be leaving shortly for our euro-tour. We are pretty excited about it. We have signed ourselves up for couchsurfing, which is a site that lets you look at peoples profiles and request to stay for free in their guestroom/couch. It sounds pretty cool (a friend told us about it) and if we get a few places to stay, it will save us some money.
Back to Fontainbleau. Yesterday we got up early and took the metro down to southern Paris where we met our friend David. He picked us up and took us to church with him. It was a really fun ward to visit. Afterward we went to his parents house for dinner (he was one of Clay's mission companions) and enjoyed ourselves. On the way home (ish) he drove us to Fontainbleau, which is the chateau that the kings lived in before versailles was built. Or at least one of them. I think its best known for the fact that napoleon lived there. We decided it might just be cooler than versailles for several reasons. #1 the architecture. Im not sure why but there are at least three different styles of architecture which is evident in the pic below

The inside is apparently pretty amazing, but we didnt get to go in. It closed shortly after we arrived, and we didnt want to pay :) Reason #2 thats its cooler than Versailles is that it is not nearly as touristy, and #3 is that the town its in is ridiculously adorable. So there it is.