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| My navigator |
We stayed in Williamsburg, Virginia the last weekend my mom was here. We left Thursday afternoon and stayed until we left Sunday afternoon. It's less then 4.5 hours from our house so it wasn't a horrible drive. Our first day we went to Jamestown Settlement.
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| the size comparison to us |
Jamestown is where the first English colonists arrived. The actual location is an archeological site. It's a tragic story with these people because most of them died. A famous colonist who came at this time was John Smith. It was one colonist who came who planted the tobacco plant and discovered that it did incredibly well. Here they have a recreation of a Powhatan Indian camp.
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| grinding the corn |
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| making a canoe |
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| can you spot Levi? |
They had all these "stations" where you could learn about different parts about the Indians and how they did things. Here they showed us how they made baskets, rope, and other things with these fibers.
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| These buildings were amazing |
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| Levi thought they were amazing too |
It was so neat to see how they used all the parts of an animal even in their homes. The "fan" Levi is playing with was made out of hardened feathers.
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| Levi fanning me |
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| Replicas of the ships that came |
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| cook's quarters |
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| The stairs were really steep |
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| cannon! |
Our kids think we went and saw pirate ships. I mean, really...look at this "colonist". I'm sure he was really just a pirate pretending. Addilyn wasn't so sure about taking the picture with him.
They had three different sized ships there that had different purposes. One was to go back and forth to England, which is the one we spent the most time on. The other two were for navigating and exploring around America.
We spent the afternoon/evening at Jamestown river. It was super warm, like bath water. It was also very shallow. The picture below we are sitting.
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| (back inside the museum part of Jamestown, out of order) |
