A Unique Park and An Amazing Cathedral

Today I woke up at 11. No surprise there because I was exhausted when I went to bed yesterday and the time just changed in France which means it is now six hours ahead of the East coast again. After breakfast and lunch, I got to walk around another town a bit and saw an awesome park with a tall greenhouse with a fairly small perimeter. While walking through the greenhouse I stopped at each plaque to see how I'd do with reading French and it turns out to be easier (when it's all in the present tense) to comprehend when reading than when listening because I can deduce many words by their spelling. Also, while learning through immersion, it feels as though each spoken sentence might as well be one word since they seem to talk a mile a minute.
Each day I am learning new words but there are hundreds of thousands of words in each language so I am aware that it will take a lot of time and effort. There are just as many words that have no association with English as there are ones that do but I've been forming my own sentences fairly well lately as long as it is past or present tense because I never fully covered the subjunctive or the future tense in school.
After touring the small greenhouse, I walked through each part of the park and took more photos; there were unique things in the park, an art structure, two amazing looking playgrounds I would have loved to have behind my elementary school, a statue, and a pretty array of flowers.
An hour or two later, I went a short ways to the cathedral in town and got to take a good look inside for another hour or so.
I spent a fair amount of time taking pictures of the windows and the designs and sculptures carved out of stone. It was very impressive and left me feeling mystified and in awe. You can feel how ancient it is and how much the builders honored their work. A tremendous amount of care has to go into it and cathedrals are often built so high it feels as though you might be in a small castle. I think there are people that believe they were built as the tallest structure in town so as to be the closest to the heavens.