Louvre or Versailles?

After a mixup with the close and open dates with the Louvre yesterday, we are heading back again this morning. In Paris, nearly all museums are closed on Mondays, and I accidentally lumped the Louvre into this as well. Instead, the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays. 

Instead of the Louvre yesterday, we hoped on the RER out to Versailles. Because of the late morning hour we traveled out there, we were forced to wait in a very long line for tickets and entrance to the Palace. My estimate yesterday was a 2:30 hour wait, but it ended up being a bit shorter at 2 hours. It would not have been that bad, but the temperature was just over 40 degrees and the wind was blowing steadily. Despite the conditions, we nearly all made it. A small portion of our group elected to stay inside the lunchroom the entire time, while the rest of us toured through the elegant Palace and briefly saw the gardens as well. 

After Versailles, we stopped off at the arc de Triumphe and went to the top to see a wonderful panorama of the city. For there, we gave the students a little shopping time and then went to the Latin Quarter for dinner at a lovely Italian restaurant and got Gelato for dessert.