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I didn’t really know what to expect when I went to Plymouth. But there was one thing I expected them to be very accurate which they were.

The activities were The Mayflower 2, The Wampanoag Home site, and the 1627 Pilgrim Village I found all of them interesting and a fun. Out of the three activates I liked the Mayflower 2 the least and I liked the Wampanoag Home site and the Pilgrim Village the same.

What surprised me was how small the Mayflower 2 is. I knew it was going to be small but not that small they must really have been packed. On the Mayflower 2 we got there we met a Pilgrim who talked to us and then we went down stairs where we met a 15-year-old girl who the Carvers were taking care of. We asked her questions and she answered then we listened to a guy talking and left.

At the Wampanoag homesite there are a bunch of things going on there was a fire where they were making a canoe. Then up the hill there were four Native Americans one of them a baby they were around a fire and you could ask them questions. Half way down the hill there was a house where a person was talking about Native American culture and there was a game you could play. On the bottom of the hill there was a house that they were making and you could look into it and in the center was their garden.

At the Pilgrim village the actors were excellent. There were tons of houses inside a lot of them were people who were acting as 1627 people and they talked like they were in 1627. We meet Edward Winslow’s wife, William Bradford’s wife, and William Brewster’s oldest son and some other people. At the top of a hill were you would enter and exit the colony there was a big house where on the bottom there was basically nothing but on the top there were about 8 canons. I think it was the look out building because you could see over the whole town and it would be good for defending the colony.

At the night we were there we did activities after dinner there were four different activates. The four were activates were writing with a quill pen, getting dressed up in pilgrim clothes, playing with Pilgrim toys, and what they called C.S.I. Plymouth. In the quill writing activity you would write your name in quill pen and try to spell it in different ways or make a symbol for your name because some people could not write. In the one were you dressed up as a pilgrim they choose one boy, one girl, and then ether a boy or a girl they dressed the boy up as a grown man the girl as a lady and ether a boy or a girl as a baby. In the one where you would play with pilgrim toys you would go into a room with a bunch of Pilgrim toys and play with them. The last one is C.S.I. Plymouth you would be split into four different groups and there would be two houses side by side we got questions and we would look around and inside the houses and we would have to answer the questions. I enjoyed all of the activates and they were fun and you could learn from them.

The dinner we ate was a Pilgrim dinner. Personally I didn’t like the dinner but some kids did. In the dinner there was turkey pottage, bread, grapes and cheese, carrots in vinaigrette, and for dessert pear pie. The only things I liked was the bread and the pear pie a little, the food just wasn’t that good.

I enjoyed the trip I thought that it was interesting and fun. I learned a lot and I would recommend it to some one thinking about going.