Jamestowne

Hey,
This is Mara.
Here are a couple of pictures of us in Historic Jamestowne. We went to Jamestown on the drive back from Virginia Beach. Well here we go.

This is the Susan Constant. It's one of the ships that brought the first colonists to America 1609. (It's not the ship it's a reproduction of the ship. ) We actually looked inside of the ship and the ship its self is pretty big but when you go into the rooms where they slept, it was really small and cramped. The bunks were TINY! I can't believe how horrible it would be to sleep there!

We found some armor and we tried it on. That's like the stuff that the colonists wore.

Mark and Jeff's armor didn't fit on their heads very well. Hee Hee... I personally think I look pretty in this picture. :)

I liked the Powhatan Village. Pocahontas was part of it. I studied Pocahontas for a home school assignment. :) She's an awesome lady. Did you know that she had 3 names?! When she was born her name was Matoaka. But as she grew older her tribe liked to call her Pocahontas which means "Playful One" because she liked to race and climb trees and stuff. And then when she got married to John Rolfe she was baptised into a Christian Church and was renamed Rebecca. By the way, we are in a replica of a Powhatan house.

Right here we enjoyed sitting in the shade because it was literally 98 degrees. It was really hot! A lady was telling us things about how the tribe planted things in their garden. It was neat.


Well this is where we were ready to go home and leave but in this picture we were posing by some religious posts that were formed in a circle. One person that worked here said that people don't know much about this religious circle except that they did some kind of dance around the circle but know one really knows what they were celebrating. Well that's it for Jamestown! :)