Christmas trip Day 3

Day # 3 We made it to our hotel about 12:30 am. It was a nice room. We woke up about 7:45 for breakfast, went to eat and then went to Jamestown. We were able to go see the re-creation of 3 ships that the Pilgrims used to come over. It took about 5 months at sea to cross the ocean. The pilgrims were treated as cargo and so they were usually under deck on top of the cargo. There probably was not room for them to stand up. Amazing the stamina they had back then. Once they made it here, the death rate was very high. If they made it a year they were considered seasoned and had a good chance of surviving. They also had a replica of a city and of the huts the Indian's would have built.

After Jamestown we drove down to Williamsburg, took a car tour and then drove up to Yorkstown where Washington defeated the RedCoats. You can still see the holes they dug in the Earth as there protection and the make shift forts the Red Coats made. They would dig a ditch and throw the dirt up as a mound and then stick in wood posts around the exterior so no one could climb up the wall. Unfortunately to the Red Coats dismay, we built ladders the we laid up against their walls and were able to climb up them and take over to of the main strongholds.

We left for Washington DC around 5:00 pm. What was supposed to be a 2 hour drive took a little longer because of traffic. We made it to our Hotel. It was 2 blocks from the Lincoln Memorial and about 2 blocks from the White House. We drove around a little and then went to the Hotel and went to bed.