Dinner at King Arms Tavern then a Candlelight Story Tour

We had a wonderful morning today. Weather was clear and perfect. We started off with a beautiful Mass at St Bedes. The pastor met us before Mass and explained to us the history and architecture of their beautiful church! For Jeremy Thellman this was the highlight of the day "I liked the Mass today because it was different from our Mass with the organ music. It was cool that our class brought the gifts down." Students Mason Lapena, Nick Coppola, Kashia Hormuth, Elena VanEenanam, and Tommy Prince represented the school and graciously carried the gifts.

After Mass, we headed to the historic Jamestown Settlement. This area is an historic recreation of the first colony in North America. This site is divided into 3 main areas: the ships, the fort, and the Powhatan Indian Village. We explored all three and interacted with museum re-enactors who all dress and act in period costumes. Ahna Salazar-Hudgins liked the ships the best, although she admitted she would have never made the voyage across the Atlantic!

After the historic Jamestown Settlement, we headed to Colonial Williamsburg. Here we went to the capital building and re-enacted the voices of discontent amongst the Virginia colonists. We had a fabulous tour of this historically restored area. We learned how to make wigs, ran through a hedge maze, and even got dirty learning how to make clay bricks. Joseph Deshaies liked this the best saying, "I liked when we went to the where they build the bricks in colonial Williamsburg. We got to step in the mud to see the process for making clay that was used to make the bricks for the houses.

We toured the jail, the Governor's palace and so much more. 

Luke Stanford said: I liked getting to go inside the House of Burgesses in the old capital building and getting to see how colonial people ran Virginia.

After our fantastic day touring we headed to the Kings Arms Tavern where we met a fiddler who entertained us with Scottish tunes as we ate our tavern meal. I bet you think our day ended their...but it didn't! After dinner we went on a spine-shivering Ghost tour of Colonial Williamsburg. We saw the most haunted building in the U.S., the Randolph House. Nick Coppola commented "I liked the ghost tour of Williamsburg the best because it was fun to hear a different perspective on history." After our ghost tours we loaded back into the buses and enjoyed a relaxing three hour bus ride into DC!