Jamestown day 2

Got up at 6:45am. Be impressed Sara. Be very impressed. Holiday inn express has really good breakfast. Jamestown: the first successful colony What a sight it must have been for those colonists when they first landed in America. I personally would have said: let's get back on the boat this place stinks. Seriously, it's a swamp! It was a very defensible spot, but it ended up killing them.

Hey, I just met you and this is crazy
but we're going to kidnap you Indian princess lady!

The colonists actually kidnapped Pocahontas thinking they could take Chief Powhatan's power, but they didn't understand that power passed through the women of the tribe, so really they took her for nothing. But she did fall in love with John Rolfe, not John Smith thanks Disney, and they were married in the church that stood where this church is now. 

 They wells they dug had water leech in from the swamp. That water contained arsenic, which is one of the main reasons that people died. They also died from starvation, salt poisoning,  but they did NOT die from malaria like our textbooks had taught. Everyone that got malaria already had it by the time that they left England. Apparently there is a type of mosquito that lives in South Eastern England that can carry Malaria.  I thought that was so cool to find that out.

  Their houses were so flimsy it was crazy.

 And for some reason the artist of this big Jamestown mural added this little part that made me laugh.

I also wanted to mention that I learned the meaning of the phrase "over the counter" it come from when people used these counting boards that had a set of line that allowed the vendor to multiply and divide before people used the Arabic numeric system. SO you bought things over the counter via this counter board.

Lastly during the Starving Time colonists had to eat bald eagles and water moccasins in order to stay alive. ICK!

 More to come on the Confederate White House Tour!

Day 2 Part 2

I found this really neat 3 picture portrait by Currier and Ives. It's kind of like what we had our 5th graders do. It was really cool and neat to see that we did something like they had in the past. There was also a lot of jewelry made of hair. Yes you read correctly human hair. Necklaces, pictures, and other stuff. Gross.

 I saw this and I thought of Sara. It's crazy to see what they used on patients back in the Civil War. I spared you all the gross things from Jamestown, like the ear picker/teeth cleaner and the constipation rod/ medicine stir...Life was very unclean in those days. Thanks for inventing Germ X.

 Here we have the Capitol Building of the Confederate States of America. Home to Jefferson Davis and his family. It is apparently furnished better than the real white house. I have not seen the real one yet, but this place was really opulent. It was so nice that we weren't even allowed to take pictures in it.

Lastly we have an account of the people who died in the Battle of Chickamagua in which at least one of my Avara ancestors participated in.














Ate at a wonderful place called the Penny Lane Pub (apparently I like sweet potato fries now) and now I'm getting tired already...crazy  I know. Well, I miss everyone very much and hope everyone is doing well :)