Old history, and I mean OLD

So, I really LOVE history. And I was glad that France was full of history. We got to visit Alesia on our way to Besancon. It is the site where the Romans conquered the Gauls (French). The famous Gaul leader Vercingetorix is super famous because he surrendered instead of letting the women and children starve and die during the Gallic Wars circa 52 BC. That's a long time ago!

This was inside the museum. We had to listen to these device things because everything was in German or French. This was a cool hallway though. Men fighting. Cool.

These are some of the Roman shoes I think. They aren't authentic ones though. The spikes on the shelf are real ones found in the ruins.

This is a reconstruction of the Roman defense system which involved moats, spikes and trenches.

Yikes, I would not want to climb over those terrifying spikes. (sarcasm intended)

These guys were doing a reenactment of how the soldiers trained for battle. It was all in French but I got most of it, even a joke one of them made.

These are the actual Roman ruins.

Maureen and Matt found the lizards a bit more interesting and tried to catch one, with no success.

Vercingetorix

Oh, and on the way there, we saw a castle that has started cracking. 

And we passed some toll booths. You have to pay a toll every time you get on and off the freeway with is called APRR which stands for Autoroute Paris Rhin Rhone. And we saw Charolais cows which are used for beef. I couldn't take a whole bunch of pics because we were in the car moving. But the land once we got out of Paris looked a lot like Kansas except for the occasional castles, hills and valleys we would see. Yes, Kansas has none of this. Everything was very green which was a nice change to the crazy city.

Oh and these were pretty cool. They were like posts on the side of the road painted like eyes.