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I told you I would write a follow-up post.

On Friday April 27th a bus pulled up in front of The Dalton School. I was on the bus. One day ago this bus had pulled up in front of Plymouth Plantation. I went to Plymouth Plantation for one night. This is what it was like.

When we got there my class went to the graveyard where the pilgrims actual graves were. We walked around in the graveyard and saw many of the names of the people that travled on the Mayflower. On the way back to the buses we saw many of the places where the Pilgrims actual houses stood (now they are just normal buildings there). When we got back to the place where we got off the bus, my class went to see the Mayflower II (a reconstruction of the Mayflower) andthe class that had already seen the Mayflower II went to see the graveyard.

On the way back we saw Plymouth rock. It was just a rock with a big 1620 in it. Then we went to see Mayflower II. The Mayflower II was really cool. It had 3 masts on it. Lying in the water next to it was the shallop. The shallop is a small boat that was used for fishing and making expeditions of the land. After seeing the main part of the deck we went up to the upper deck. There we got to meet somone who was pretending to be like a Pilgrim. We talked to her and she talked to us in the way that people would have talked 400 years ago. She asked us where we came from and when we said “New York” she didn’t know what that was (there had been nothing there when they arrived).

Later that day after we had brought our suitcases to where we are going to sleep, we visited the village of the Wampanoag tribe. That was the tribe of Native Amercian’s that we there 400 years ago. Insted of talking like their ancestors would, they talked like people talked now, but they lived like Native Americians. We saw them building canoes. They do this by taking a log and burning out the inside. The way they made it so that the whole log didn’t burn up was by using wood that was a little wet. Then we went into huts that they built and talked to some of them. We asked them a lot of questions about their life and they answered them. It was cool seeing what their life would have been like.

Then we had activites. First we went to see 2 pilgrim houses and tried to figure out how they would have lived. Then we got to write stuff in quill pens ex. our names, etc.. After that we got to play with toys that the Pligrims children used. There were hula hoops but insted of hula-hooping with them you took a stick and pushed it along. There was a game like tic-tack-toe and many more gamees like what we would use today. Then we got to dress up like the pilgrims. It was really funny seeing your friends wearing Pilgrims! Did you know that this thing a baby had to wear on their head called a pudding. Then we got to go to the place where we could have dinner. There was apple cider to drink and things to eat. Some of the things to eat are turky pottage (turky oatmeal), carrots, bread and butter and for dessert, pear teart.

Now we had to go to bed. The boys had to sleep in a big room and the girls had to sleep in another big room. In the morning we had breakfast and went to the gift shop to buy stuff. Then we visited the 1627 Pilgrim village. We saw what the pilgrim houses would be like and saw some of the people who work there living in the houses. Then we saw the gun place where they would protect their new coloney. Then we walked back to the bus and were on our way home. At 4:20 that day, we were back home.