Sleeping Beauty's Castle

One of the great things about having Wednesdays off from school each week is we can use it to do Field Trips! Last week that's exactly what we did. David took the day off and away we went - to Chateau d'Usse - better known as the "Chateau de la Belle au Bois dormant," which American's would call "Sleeping Beauty's Castle."
It is named as such because the original author of the famous fairy tale, Charles Perrault, was inspired by this castle to write this famous story.


Sorry about the strange angle on this next one. It was the only way to fit the whole garden into the image:
Like all good castle properties, it has it's own chapel


Of which the entryway was simply spectacular. The 12 apostles and Jesus appear carved into the stone. We tried guessing which face belonged to which name. Maybe you would like to try to figure it out:



Vivi served as hostess greeting the castle guests at the main entrance to the chateau:

The rooms were full of beautifully adorned mannequins. Here they are placed in the drawing room:


I loved the dining room! I had to tweak the photo a bit to try to accurately recapture the brilliant color. It was like a room full of lemony sunshine!
A bedroom, believe it or not. Seems like an awfully popular place!
But see? Here's the bed:
We actually got to go in the attic! It was so cool. It was full of dusty old broken-looking things. A real treat!

I took so many other photos. I may have to do a couple more posts to capture the rest. But I'll end this one with one of my favorites: