Today we went to Monticello. It is very pretty. My favorite room in the house was Thomas Jefferson’s bedroom. There was a bed in the wall. And in the dining room, I saw a dumbwaiter and a “hot chocolate duck”. In the backyard, there was a hole in the trees to view the University of Virginia, for when Jefferson was planning the university, he was too old to climb onto a horse to ride down the hill to see it. I thought that was cool. I also bought a huge pencil, a long skinny one, and a huge Sacagawea dollar coin at the gift shop. Our next stop was Jamestown. Over there, I learned about life in Jamestown through galleries. There were Indian arrowheads too. And there were replicas of James Fort, the ships the people came in, and an Indian village. The belowdecks of the ships were very small and stuffy-hot. The Indian village was filled with animal skins, but they are Indians, right? I think James Fort was my fave though. It was very cool. It depicted storage buildings, schoolhouse, and houses which were rather small compared to our house. There was also a gun demonstration that made my heart rattle when the person shot the gun. At the gift shop, I bought a Powhatan teddy bear, some postcards, a pin, and a pencil.  For dinner, we ate at Marino’s and it was so QUIET. (It’s an Italian restaurant) By the way, outside of Jamestown Festival Park, there was a place where all 50 states’ flag was shown. There was also an American flag there and a fountain. =D