Edinger House Plymouth Trip…

c16rc — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:10:46 +0000

My. This will be a loooong post. As you may know, my class went to Plymouth Plantation as a class trip because we are studying the Pilgrims. This was a sleepover trip, as we left on Thursday and came back on Friday. The very first thing we did was we went to this grave yard. I hated the graveyard because we were inches away from dead people covered in grass and dirt and doesn’t that just creep you out? When we finished that, we saw (this was my favorite part) the Mayflower. Actually, the Mayflower II, a remake. I got to see the beds, (they look so uncomfortable, wood, straw, a blanket.)The dusty and smelly deck, (eww) and this is the first time I saw a Pilgrim actor. There were actors everywhere dresses in Petticoats and aprons and telling us about their “journey” and how they kept “casting.” We brought along T, our turtle friend from the books T Turtle Travels. He got in a lot of pictures with Pilgrims. Once, when we asked a Pilgrim to hold him for a picture, he gave T one look and then he said in disgust like T was more garbage then a turtle, “We eat turtle soup, here.” I whisked T away after the picture like he was sitting on fire. Meani Pilgrim. Also, we got to go to the Pilgrim village and see all the Pilgrim homes. This is where we met the turtle soup guy. There were dirt floors in most of the houses and there were Pilgrims with pocket knives walking all around. We met a nice Pilgrim boy; he looked around 17, named Love Bruston who was sawing a whole load of wood for firewood. He let us each try. We met so many friendly Pilgrims that time flew by so fast. We got to plaster a house with mud; we got to meet a feathery bunch of roosters, and a herd of bulls. Along with all this, we got to learn all about the Pilgrim games, (such as hoop and stick, ball and cup, bubbles, ect.) how to write with a quill pen, and how to dress like Pilgrims. (Wow, they wore so many layers, even in the summer!) We also got this Pilgrim dinner. Uh, whoopie. They had said they would give us turkey pottage. (I had been calling it turkey slop-in-a-pot before we came) but they switched it on us! They gave us this turkey with onion sauce and these johnnycakes things. I have to admit that even though the turkey slop-in-a-pot was not my favorite, the johnnycakes were really good. If you look at them, you could easily mistaken them for sugar cookies, but they taste like nothing I have ever tasted. They were great. And, once we got on the bus home I thought about what I had just accomplished. Now all I can say is that I am grateful for the light switches and lamps in my house!

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Edinger House Plymouth Trip…