This was the day we explored the Jamestown Settlement which is part museum and part living history re-creation.

 

 

The museum section was large….

 

 

But immediately pissed me off with the no photography allowed rule. (I took this one just because I’m ornery.)

We’d spent the last 2 weeks visiting museums filled with amazing artifacts and fine art, but this…. fake trees and cheesy dioramas…. was off limits? Go figure.

Okay….

Fast forward to the full immersion cinema we were learning were common in these parts.

 

 

Admittedly, when you’re there?

It’s pretty cool.

 

 

Especially when the smoke starts rolling along the floor.

 

 

Finished with the film, we headed outside.

 

 

Past whatever this was.

 

 

And into a Native American village.

 

 

It was basically the same thing we’d seen at Plymouth Plantation earlier this year.

 

 

Except there were no bare chested young Indian men to chat with.

Boo to that.

 

 

There were more huts.

 

 

And a couple of people making baskets.

 

 

And of course, because I find them everywhere…

 

 

Chickens.

 

 

Aggravated roosters…

 

 

And fluffy butted hens.

 

 

Next up was the harbor…

 

 

And the reconstructed vessels that brought the first settlers from England.

 

 

We toured the deck.

 

 

The husband chatted up a crew member.

 

 

We toured down below.

 

 

Where accommodations were small….

 

 

And pretty basic.

 

 

Unless you were the cook.

 

 

Who got his own room.

Of course it was also the kitchen, so there is that.

 

 

The husband chatted up another crew member.

 

 

And we enjoyed the views.

 

 

While marveling at how more than a hundred people could travel together for months on end in these small spaces.

 

 

And mind you, we were on the large ship.

 

 

The whole time were touring?

There was a soundtrack….

 

 

 

He was quite a character.