Hello everyone! This is Caitlin checking in to tell everyone about our trip to Williamsburg. Well, we got there around 3 or 4 on Thursday and bought two-day tickets for Friday and Saturday. The ticket lady said we could go on in for the rest of Thursday, so that gave us an extra two hours or so. Before entering the colonial section, we went into the theater and watched a half-hour film called "The Story of a Patriot", which was about...umm...a patriot guy. The whole movie was filmed in and around Williamsburg. It was good, and it was on a huge screen, so that was pretty cool. After that, we walked to the colonial section...that took about 15 minutes, but it wasn't so bad considering that we were going back two centuries. When we got there, we looked around a bit and went through the maze behind the Governor's Palace while Mom and Dad watched and guided us from the mound. Let's see...Beth already told you about Friday, but there was one thing she didn't mention...we met a famous person!!! Yep, we met James Ingram, or rather, Gowan Pamphlet the preacher. What...you've never heard of him??? Well, he wrote an article in Guideposts recently, in which he told about how he came to work as a re-enactor at Williamsburg. Yes, we saw him strolling down the street, so we ran up to him and begged him for his autograph. Not really, but we did say hi to him and told him we saw him in Guideposts. He was very nice and let us take a picture of him, which you see on the top right. (That's the Magazine behind us, by the way...)
We also took several pictures of our fancy shmancy hotel suite, but unfortunately they were lost while we were trying to load them to the computer. Anyway, we had a lot of fun! I'm very glad that I went and didn't stay home to do driver's ed. I learned a lot about American history, which I'm studying in school right now; plus, I got a fife for a souvenir. :)
~Caitlin
Ah, yes....this is me posing with a squirrel. T'was the highlight of my trip.
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I am pretty sure the squirrel also got a picture of this, to put on his blog.
ah, yes. Gowan Pamphlet.
B mentioned the governor's palace too. I wouldn't have thought he would get a palace.
His name is James Ingram, but he portrays Gowan Pamphlet, who was a preacher in Colonial Williamsburg. We had seen his picture in Guideposts, so we were sort of keeping our eyes open for him. So we recognized him when we saw him walking down the street.
Well, he was a royal governor, so he got a palace. He was in Williamsburg representing the king.
I'm thinking Gowan Pamphlet was some major player in church history. Came a couple of hundred years before Chick Tract, but the same kind of guy. Kind of an everyman's evangelist. And we met him. Sort of.
haha that was good Mom
a guy named Robert was watching me type and he said, "Wow, your mom's nickname on here is 'Hoss'?"
He is picturing me like Hoss on Bonanza! Maybe you'd better correct that image, Ben. He thinks I'm pretty big.
There, now we each have 11 comments. (in case you didn't know, I've been waiting forever for someone to put comment #11 on my post...)
that's odd
haha! do you get it? odd. haha. oh me.
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