Our only jobs today were to go to Jamestown and get to Stanardsvill, Virginia, at a halfway decent hour. We did both.
And we are REALLY happy to have our Popi with us!
Instead of visiting the re-creation of Jamestown, we visited the ruins, which was a very different experience than then one I had when I was 7 years old. One had to do a lot of imagining to “see” what things had been like.
The nature and swamp surrounding the island where Jamestown was founded
In and around the Fort at Jamestown
The church at Jamestown, rebuilt in the very early 1900’s
I think we will visit the re-creation next year when we visit Virginia again, and even though the kids didn’t fully recognize what they were seeing, I don’t think the experience was lost on them. What was most exciting was the excavation of a new-found site in the fort and watching the excavators do their work.
They were quite passionate about their work! The kids were very happy to be on a tiny island, and they watched the boats go up and down the James River. We saw turtles and a fawn, and walked the roads and streets of old Jamestown as they would have been walked 400 years ago.
The Lion was very bothered by Bacon’s Rebellion, and he couldn’t understand why people would want to burn a beautiful town down! The Bird thought it was fascinating to walk where Pocahontas walked, and she couldn’t understand why the Disney version of the story (which she has not seen, but has heard about from her friends), doesn’t depict the fullness of her life.
Judah built a teeny wood house while the girls explored a hole in a tree stump.
The glass blowing was as fascinating as I remembered it when I was 7 years old!
My Lion looking down the barrel of his gun
There are beautiful flowers out here!
From Jamestown, we went to Stanardsville where we found a beautiful campground to stay in nestled into the woods at the base of the Shenandoah Mountains.
It took us about 45 minutes to get the fire lit, but we are determined folks!
Tomorrow is the wedding and cousins and all kinds of fun, and we need to be well-rested for it!
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