Chateaux de la Loire

So this past weekend I went on a field trip with IES and it was so cool! We toured the Chateaux de la Loire and saw: Serrant, Azay-le-Rideau, Villandry, Ambroise and Chenonceau. They were all super cool! Serrant had the MOST AMAZING LIBRARY EVER!!! It looked just like the one in beauty and the beast (only smaller, but still it was sooooooooooo cool!!!). The next one we saw was Azay-le-Rideau which was really pretty but nothing about it really stood out - the grounds were pretty but the inside was mostly closed so we could climb up the stairs and look out the windows but that was about it which was disappointing for me. The third castle we went to we couldn't actually go in but we saw the gardens which were beautiful! There was one part of the garden that had the theme of the four seasons of love and had different plant displays for each one. They were really cool. I could only find three though LOL. but still they were really pretty!! Then we went to a hotel in Tours which wasn't that nice but whatever we were only there for one night. Then on Sunday we went to Ambroise which is really close to where Leonardo da Vinci spent his last years and he's actually buried on castle grounds so we got to see his tomb. The guided tour at Ambroise was definitely the best one that we had all weekend. And at Ambroise we saw the suit of armor that Henry II was wearing when he was jousted through the eye and died 10 days later....what an idiot...anyway that was cool. The suit of armor weighed 70 pounds!!!  I took so many pictures that I have two photo albums again so here are pictures of Serrant,  Azay-le-Rideau, Villandry and some of Ambroise. 

   Then after Ambroise we went to Chenonceau which was beautiful. It was so cool. It was my favorite actual castle that we saw the whole weekend but I liked them all. Chenonceau is a castle on a bridge and has amazing grounds and the weather was amazing and made everything look that much prettier. That was one of the good things about the weekend. It only rained for 20 minutes or so Sunday morning when we started our tour at Ambroise but afterwards it was done and it was beautiful, sunny and 70 to 75 degrees the rest of the weekend. You can look at the rest of my pictures here. Enjoy! I miss you all!