Jamestown VA

Today we had reservations at a bed and breakfast.  This place was not like the pictures showed online.  We were greeted by an older man and his wife who had some problems.  She frightened me, she would try and tell me something about her husband and he would say hey what are you telling her?  Only one small sitting area crowded with junk stacked up on the walls.  No place to have breakfast instead they wanted to bring it to my room.  I wanted a glass and had to knock on their door down the hallway.  His wife tried to come out and he pushed her back in.  There were hundreds of pictures on every wall inside the room.  He did not let me come in he shut the door and got me a glass and brought it back to me.  We left and went and ate.  At dinner, we decided this place freaked us out too much and we were going to leave a note and get our belongings and go to a hotel.  What a freaky thing to happen to us.......first time ever.  

Slept well in the hotel and woke up early to meet our tour guide John Sutton at Jamestown entrance by the 50 flags.

 Bought tickets to enter the Jamestown settlement.

 The first thing I saw was a ceremonial circle of carved wooden posts when I entered the village.

As we passed by the garden we were told that indian boys would sit in the hut and learn to shoot bow and arrow.  There aim was for any animal trying to get in the garden. 

We are wondering around the villages learning how the Powhatan Indians and chief lived their lives. The village had reed covered houses, grew crops and actors in the village making twining baskets, cooking over an open fire.

 

I was given a corn cob that had a feather attached to the end of it and play this game where I aimed like playing darts and threw it through the hoops hanging from the trees.  I made all three throws. :-)

 John our tour guide gave me a headband to wear with a feather in it and I was going to act out Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan.  John was Powhatan and Marlon was John Smith
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 Re-creations of three ships that brought America’s first permanent English colonists to Virginia in 1607 are moored at Jamestown Settlement’s pier for visitors to board and explore. We went through the ships and John talked about the life of the seamen.