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Once the girls had Grandma and Poppa all to themselves at the cottage, they spent the majority of the time at the beach. It also included grocery shopping for another GRAND meal - YIKES - I need to lose weight, not gain it - but then again - What are vacations for if you can't splurge? Saturday, we spent the day touring the Mayflower and the Plimoth Plantation.
The details of the ship, from the solid oak timbers and tarred hemp rigging, to the wood and horn lanterns and hand-colored maps, have all been carefully recreated to give you a sense of what the original 17th-century vessel was like. We got to explore the 3 levels of the ship, only getting a slight glimpse of what it might have been like traveling during the 1620 voyage.
After touring the Mayflower, we headed over to the Plimoth Plantation. We first traveled to an authentic Wampanoag Village where we saw a traditional wetu (house). Surrounded by soft furs, flickering firelight, and artfully woven bulrush mats, we learned about traditional Wampanoag family life as well as the arrival of the English from an Indigenous point of view. We walked around outside and commented about the scent of sobaheg (stew) as it simmered over an aromatic wood fire. The men's clothing also threw us girls for a loop - it was a little more revealing than we were used to!
Our next stop was the 1627 English Village which is a re-creation of the small farming town built by English colonists in the midst of the Wampanoag homeland. We found ourselves immersed in the year 1627, just seven years after the voyage of the Mayflower. In the village we were surrounded by modest timber-framed houses, fragrant raised-bed gardens, well-tended livestock and fascinating townspeople of Plymouth Colony, the first permanent English settlement in New England. One of the townspeople even put the girls to work hauling manure! About time - can't you tell there was too much relaxing going on!
We were exhausted by the time we returned to the cottage, but we still had room for another GRAND meal!
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