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I went to Plymouth Massachusetts as a class trip on Thursday April 17th, 2008 for school and I went with the rest of my grade. The first thing we did when we got there is we went to a exact replica of the Mayflower called The Mayflower II. On the ship we met a lady and we got to ask her a lot of questions about the way they lived back then. But we had to be careful of the way we talked to her or else she would be offended. Also she did not know about a lot of things we were talking about.

Then we went and walked around town where the original settlement was and there was signs all around town saying that this house was where the sow and sows lived. Also we went to a cemetery where a lot of pilgrims were berried and we saw William Bradford’s grave. We also saw a lot of other peoples graves.

Next we went to Plymouth Plantation. There we went to the craft museum and we saw a woman making a new sail for the Mayflower II and another woman painting pottery.

Then we went to the Native American village. There we saw a couple of houses and we saw a man making a canoe. We also saw a couple of people cooking and some kids playing. We got to go into a couple of houses and we got to try digging ashes out of the canoe.

Then we got to play a little before dinner. At dinner we had turkey, cooked carrots, grapes, and johny cakes. We ate pilgrim style so we used pilgrim manners which were your napkin if you were a lady you would put your napkin on your lap and if you were a man you put your napkin over your left sholder and if you moved around in your seat they thought you had gas. Also the people in the middle were the honered people and the people at the head of the table were the servants. Also your utensils were a spoon and a knife not a fork because you would use your fingers.

Then the next day we went to the pilgrim vilage and we got to do a lot of work and talk to pilgrims and go in houses and ask questions about there life back then. The work we did is we worked in a garden and we got to put mud on the sides of one of the houses. Then we got to look around and then we had lunch and left.

But here is a picture of the pilgrim village below.

Bye for now!