Tuesday, December 3rd

Today we went to Jamestown, Virginia.  This is the "birthplace" of America.  The people from England arrived here in May of 1607 (13 years before the Pilgrims.)  on 3 ships.  There were 104 men that arrived.  No women or children at the beginning.  The beginning was very tough; at one point so many had died, they only had 39 men.  Finally a supply ship arrived with additional colonists and that was the beginning of America.  The place we went had living history villages; one of the Indians that were in Virginia and one the English colonists would have made.  We also saw the type of ships they came over here on. The trip took about 5 months!

Then we took the Colonial Parkway to Yorktown.  Two very historic towns only about 30 miles apart.  They had signs along the parkway road that Garrett took pictures of to do a slide show/project.  The signs were about the history of that particular area.  

So the history of Yorktown is the last battle of the Revolutionary War was here.  The British surrendered and this ended the war.  There was a living history farm of the late 1770s and a living history army camp set up.  They shot off a real cannon (minus the cannon of course).  After that we went to the actual battlefield of Yorktown.

Tonight when we got back to the camper we actually 'camped!'  We had a fire, hotdogs and s'mores!                 

                **Sara