The group also got to tour the 3 ships Susan Constant, Godsby, and Discovery. The students explored the Jamestown settlement and briefly viewed part of the museum, then headed down to the Jamestown glassblowing factory.

Caroline Langoon was our red-headed tour guide who talked fast and animated. She was helped make history come alive!

The group then headed off to Historic Williamsburg, the most historic mile in America . The day was overcast and the walk through town was most enjoyable. We wandered through many buildings that were either original buildings or restored to authentic state. There were many people in period dress and playing the role in conversation.

This group of jurors found jurors found Mrs. Beatty guilty of stealing clothes for her freezing children.  She was branded with a T and let go.

After a quick stop at the gift stores and the stockades, the group headed down to the Tavern for a delicious dinner and entertainment. We had several period actors that came through playing and singing music of the period.

Then we headed back to the Capital building for a ‘dancing diversion’. We were treated to an enjoyable demonstration of colonial style dance accompanied by a violin performer. The dancers performed a dance to the Minuet, then they took some student volunteers and taught them. The dances became progressively more complicated, and by the end of the hour, all the students and half of the parents had danced with the Virginian’s whose motto was to “Dance or Die!”

We then made another stop for storytelling hour and learned more about the slaves and their role in the Williamsburg settlement.

10/26 (Mon) TRAVEL Day:

• 4:30 AM-5:00 AM Shuttle to Airport
• 7:56 AM Board flight
• 1:06 AM  – Arrive Denver Airport
• 12:34 PM – Depart Denver Airport (United Flight UA316)
• 5:45 PM EST Arrive Dulles Airport
• 6:30PM Depart Dulles by Motor Coach to Williamsburg VA
• 8:00PM Dinner at Golden Corral
• 10:30PM Arrive Hotel Embassy Suites Williamsburg

10/27/09 Tuesday

• 8:00AM Breakfast at Hotel Embassy Suites Williamsburg
• 8:30AM Depart Hotel via Motor Coach
• 9:00AM Arrive Jamestown Settlement
• 12:00PM McDonalds @ Pocohontas Trail
• 1:30PM Colonial Williamsburg including Governor’s Palace
• 5:30PM Dinner – Shield’s Tavern
• 7:00PM Dance Diversions
• 8:30PM Storyteller
• 10:00PM Arrive at Hotel Embassy Suites Williamsburg

10/28/09 Wednesday

• 6:45AM Breakfast at Hotel Embassy Suites Williamsburg
• 7:30AM Depart for Charlottesville
• 9:30AM Arrive Monticello
• 2:30PM Lunch – Historic Michie Tavern
• 1:30PM Depart for Washington DC via Motor Coach – Smithsonian Complex – Air & Space Museum – Natural History Museum – American History Museum
• 6:00PM Dinner – Armand’s including Night View of Presidential Memorials – Jefferson – FDR – Lincoln
• 9:30PM Hotel – Sheraton Premier at Tyson’s Corner

10/29/09 Thursday

• 6:00AM Hotel Breakfast Sheraton Premier at Tyson’s Corner
• 6:30AM Depart via Motor Coach to White House
• 7:30AM White House
• 8:00 Depart for Capitol Visitor’s Center
• 8:50AM Visit with Congressman Peter DeFazio
• 11:30AM Washington Monument
• Lunch – Old Post Office Pavilion
• Mt. Vernon Education Center & Grounds Tour
• 6:00PM Dinner Old Country Buffet Alexandria
• Night View Kennedy Center & War Memorials – WWII Memorial – Vietnam Veterans Memorial – Korean War Memorial – Iwo Jima Memorial
• 9:30PM Hotel Sheraton Premier at Tyson’s Corner

10/30/09 Friday

• 7:00AM Breakfast – Sheraton Premier at Tyson’s Corner
• 7:45 Arlington National Cemetery – Kennedy Gravesites – Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – Changing of the Guard – Challenger Memorial
• 9:00AM ANC Tourmobile
• 10:15 Wreath laying Appointment
• Ballston Common Mall Food Court
• 1:30PM The Newseum
• Smithsonian Complex
• 5:30PM Dinner – Sizzling Express
• FDR Memorial
• September 11^th Pentagon Memorial
• 9:00PM Hotel Park Central

10/31/09 Saturday

• 6:00AM Breakfast Hotel Park Central
• 6:45AM Depart for Philadelphia
• 10:15AM Independence Hall National Park
• 11:30 National Constitution Center
• 2:00PM Depart for New York City
• 5:00PM Dinner Mars 2112 Restaurant
• 10:30PM Group Photo Times Square
• Walk to hotel Park Central

11/1/09 Sunday

• 7:00AM Subway to Battery Park
• 8:00AM Breakfast McDonalds
• Statue of Liberty
• 12:30PM Chevy’s
• South Street Seaport
• Financial District – US Custom House – Trinity Church – Federal Hall – Wall Street – Ground Zero – St Paul’s Church
• 3:30PM Intrepid Sea-Air Space Museum
• 6:00PM Dinner – Heartland Rotisserie
• 8:00PM Empire State Building
• 9:30PM to Hotel Park Central

11/02/09 Monday

• 8:00AM Breakfast – Walk to Cranberry Deli
• (optional) 8:00AM USS New York will parade into New York Harbor on Monday, November 2nd where it will stop right across from ground zero and lower its flag to half mast around 8 a.m. and fire a 21-gun salute.  No other ship in world history carries the sentiment and import this ship possesses. In her bow is 7.5 tons of World Trade Center Steel.
• 9:30AM NBC Studio Tour
• (optional) Rockefeller Center
• 3:00PM USS Entrepid
• 6:00 PM Dinner – Bocca
• Free Evening

11/03/09 Tuesday

• 7:00AM Walk to breakfast – Bocca
• 7:30AM Depart for Boston
• 1:00PM Plimoth Plantation and Mayflower II
• 6:00PM Dinner – Union Oyster House
  Quincy Market
• 9:00PM Hotel

11/04/09 Wednesday

• 7:30AM Hotel Breakfast
• 7:45AM Concord – North Bridge – Minuteman National Park – Freedom Trail:Faneuil Hall – Old State House – Massacre Site – King’s Chapel – Granary Burial Ground
• 1:30PM Lunch – Old Statehouse
• 3:45 Logan Airport
• 5:30 Dinner at Airport
• Board UA179 at 5:48 EST.  Layover at SF 9:45pm-10:41pm.  Land in Portland at 12:34am PST (will feel like 3:30am).

11/05/09 Thursday Carpool back to Roseburg!