Virginia Vacation - Jamestown

Continuing on our vacation, on day three we had some company join us on our adventures in Virginia - Grandma and Grandpa drove down from New York.  On this day we hit up Jamestown, part of the Historic Triangle.

For those who aren't history buffs, Jamestown is the first surviving colonial settlement.  You may remember the story of John Smith and Pocahontas.  That came out of Jamestown...

Once we paid for our admission into the Settlement (which also scored us tickets to Yorktown, the 3rd city in the Historic Triangle) we ventured in.  Here Grandpa and Drew try to climb the tall tower in the courtyard.

We decided to hit the Fort.  This is a replica of what the British explorers (among which was John Smith) built to protect them from the "natives" and the elements.

Our protectors for this trip...

Drew was found sleeping on the job.

 He wanted to play act everywhere he went, it cracked us up!

Here's their church.. Drew had to give his "sermon" from the lower pulpit (I couldn't see him when he tried to go to the top one).

Drew was excited to find a quoits game - we saw this in Williamsburg the day before, but my camera battery died when I tried to get pictures of the boys playing it.  Notice it's like a colonial version of horseshoes.

Barrel room..

Grandpa joins the other armed guards...

We couldn't leave the fort until Daddy did some heavy lifting and brought us some water.

After some time in the Fort, we decided to venture down to some replica ships.  The first settlers came on three ships.  The first was the Susan Constant.

The boys decided to explore the ships.  Grandma and I decided to find some shade... the hot muggy weather was a bit too much for me.

Here are some pictures Dave took on his cell phone. From the ships.

After the shipyard, we made our way back toward the Indian Village.

Here Grandma and I are checking out the animal skins.  I had to drape it across the front of me... my um, boobs were sweating through my shirt.

Drew conned Grandpa to carry him as long as possible.  That was one patient Grandpa... that kid is heavy and it was HOT!

Dave and I hanging out in the canoe... who needs water to explore in a boat?

A Powhatan hut

Me inside the Powhatan hut....

 Grandma checking out all the Indian artifacts.

Drew is grinding the corn... 

And here's a funny story, in the Indian Village there was a guy standing by a hut without his shirt.  Dave walked up to him, and asked if he could take his picture with him.  The guy says sure... then Dave dropped on him, he wanted to take his shirt off too - you know because he was Native American and he wanted to make it look authentic.  Dave wanted to know if it was okay.

The guy said "Um,  I've never been asked that before" as he looks around nervously - there was a tour guide and tourists walking up at that moment.  I told Dave to just hurry up and do it...

That was the result.  The man quickly walked off - I think we managed to embarrass him.  Hopefully the tour guide wasn't his boss and he didn't get in trouble.

Shortly after this we decided to pack it up and hit up Yorktown, it was already starting to get late, and the natives were getting hungry.