We were suffering from the usual jet lag so we all woke bleary eyed around 4-5 am.  The kids played on their technology and Leigh and I did too until the light dawned over Paris. In the cool Sunday morning air we walked up to the local Patisserie  for breakfast.  The brioche, croissants and baguettes were still warm from the oven and smelled so good!!! (Brioche au Chocolat a particular favourite of the kids).  We were up and about so walked through the quiet streets of the Latin Quarter (5th Arrondisement) and down to the Seine river to Notre Dame.  Notre Dame is an imposing sight as the sun rose across the City.  The kids marvelled at the gargoyles and we took some happy snaps around the most visited sight in Paris (which then makes it the most visited sight in the most visited city in the world).  We kept walking back up Blvd Saint Germain to the Jardin du Luxembourg.  What a beautiful garden - the chestnut trees all trimmed to perfection.  The kids got their crazies out running around the park as we walked (while the rest of Paris seemed to be jogging) back to the apartment to get ready for our bike tour of Versailles. We jumped into a taxi and made it to Gare Saint Lazare just in time to meet our tour group.  We caught the train from Paris to Versailles, on the way passing the La Defense (the "new" modern office buildings look out of place in Paris and our guide Antoine said many Parisiens feel awkward being in tall buildings) Versailes town is a very pretty "suburb" of Paris (quite affluent).  We walked through an amazing Sunday market to get our provisions for our picnic lunch in Versailles. - beacoup frommage, jambon and fruit and veg.  Incredible variety and quality. With our backpacks bulging we  jumped on our Bikes and rode through the town to the beginning of the Versailles grounds.  The Versailles "park"  is enormous (2,000 acres) and on a lovey Sunday morning, it was busy with cyclists, joggers and girl and boy scouts!. Antoine and our group rode around the Versailles lake to our picnic spot.  The grounds are stunning and it was lovely to sit in the sunshine, admiring the palace (from afar) and munching on a ham and cheese baguette and glass of red.  The kids were great and loved riding their bikes. After lunch we continued our ride around the lake and up to the Versailles Summer Palace. Clad in pink marble from the South of France, the Summer Palace was King Louis 14th's retreat from the hustle and bustle of the Grand Palace.  A stunning palace, on beautiful grounds - the ostentatious grander is simply over the top. Next stop was the Petit Trianon - Marie Antionettes "house". Not as grand as the other building (nonetheless spectacular) it also has Marie Antoinettes Hamlet in its grounds - a disneyesque country hamlet of no purpose other than for Marie Anoinettes desire to escape.  She clearly was slightly crazy but it was an enjoyable walk through the English garden and the kids loved all the animals (espcialy the crazy roosters). It was time to ride our bikes back to the garage to drop them off.  It was getting a bit busier on the streets and the kids did very well riding the bikes back with Antoine and the group. We dropped  off our bikes off and then walked back to the Grand Palace. Luckily we were able to skip the enourmous queue out front, thanked Antoine for the tour and then we began our walk through the Palace.  Each room in the Palace is grander and grander - enormous paintings, sculptures and fire places. The Hall of Mirrors is particularly stunning (and full of tourists).  The kids (and us) were flagging at this stage so we walked through the remainder of the Palace (quick look out to the Anish Kapoor sculpture in the grounds outside the palace) and then walked back to the train and back to the palace.  A quick doze on the train and a taxi back to the Rue de Moufetard and dinner at a local bistro. Tired but happy, we walked back to the Apartment, watched some TV and then off to bed - Couleurve tomorrow!