Monday and Tuesday

MONDAY, CONT.

This is one of the hold areas on the ship.  Can you believe how short these bunks are?  This picture actually makes them look bigger than they really are.  They were only about 4 feet long.  Either people slept really scruched up, or they were the size of the Oompa Loompas.

Jared, Luke, and I on the deck of the Elizabeth.  This is one of the first three ships to bring new settlers to America.  All of the first people were men, but married women and their servants came a few years later.  I know this doesn't directly match the picture, but I found out how Virginia got its name.  It was named after Queen Elizabeth I who never married.  She was called the virgin queen, and instead of going right after her name, they went with her purity.

After we saw the ships, we went to the Fort.  By this time, Luke was getting pretty tired and fussy, so we didn't stay long.  It was really crowded on Monday.  I forgot it was Columbus Day, and I guess lots of people thought that the first colony would be a cool place to go on Chris's big day.  

Jared, the Warrior, and his little soldier in training

TUESDAY

On Tuesday, we went to Yorktown.  Jared had never been.  Even now, we haven't seen the coolest stuff there.  You can do a driving tour of the Battlegrounds and see where the British surrendered.  Luke hates being in the car, though, and it's about a 30 minute drive just to get there...before you ever even drive the tour.  We didn't think Luke could handle it, so we just walked around, and I showed Jared everything that I'd seen.  The only sight he didn't appreciate was the Ben & Jerry's.  No ice cream for us this time.  Boo Hoo.

Henry Nelson's home.  He was the first governor of Virginia.  His house still has battle wounds from the last stand.  That's a cannonball stuck in the brick at the top of the house, and the picture below shows a cannonball stuck in the brick nearer to the bottom.  I heard that the house was hit while the family was eating dinner.

Jared and Luke in the gardens behind his home.
The front of his house.  Wouldn't it be fun to live in a house like this?  So much history and so beautiful too.

Jared and Luke next to the Ben & Jerry's.  Luke needed some wiggle time outside of his stroller.