Day 6: Nicholas Arquilla and Hailey Paramski
Today, we all arrived at the bus at 8:30 A.M. and left for Jamestown settlement. When we got there, we walked down to a monument dedicated to the settlers, and soon were greeted by our tour guide dressed fully in a Colonial American dress and bonnet. She taught us about thee settlement of Jamestown and life on the four foot tall boat on the way over from Plymouth. After our walk with the historical character filled with information for us to take notes on, we did some exploring on our own. We visited the first church ever to be founded in America, and viewed a statue of Pocahontas, and John Ralph. After some walking outside, we went into a small museum that they had built within the pat year. They had a lot of uncovered artifacts from the Jamestown settlement, including original parts of buildings under glass. Our next stop was Fredericksburg. We visited the battlefield, and a small gift shop located in the general area with many fascinating artifacts that we had the opportunity to buy such as original Confederate and Union bullets. Near the shop, there were several original houses from the war that had been restored and are currently occupied by house owners. On the battle field, there was a statue of Roland Kirkland, known as the “Angel of the Battlefield” that we looked at, we saw the hill that the Union marched up and we took notes in our journals on the battle in general.
Later at night, it was time for what many of us had been awaiting; laundry. We put in our clothes with a partner and we all had the chance to go out to dinner somewhere on the premises with a group of our choice. There was a McDonald’s that many of us went to, and a Pizza Hut as well. After eating, and drying our clothes we all packed up our things onto the bus and we thought we were on our way back to the hotel. We ended up at an ice-cream place because Mr. Habel had heard that it was the best in town. The ice-cream was awesome and I think we all had a good time