Today, our third day at the "historic triangle" we had our last two stops.... Yortown Victory Center and Yorktown Battlefields. We lucked out since it was supposed to POUR all day and we didn't think we would make it to either place. However, it ended up being overcast and the rain held off until 2 pm. We had enough time to get both places in !Yorktown Victory Center had a GREAT
re-encampment camp with marvelous speakers that did fabulous demonstrations for the kids. The medical tent was by far our favorite. We loved looking at the "teeth" tooth for extracting teeth. Also the "bite bar" certainly did wonders for our imagination ! Shayna loved pretending to "extract" a bullet from someone's clenched fist to simulate what a doctor would have done in the American Revolution.
We got to see a Musket Demonstration and hear the blast. We also caught the cannon demonstration. It certainly brought a more realistic understanding to both of us the confusing that constantly happened in battle ! Shayna was the "cannon ball" runner for the demonstration for that !
The National Park Service at the Battlefields had a FABULOUS movie on Yorktown. We did a quick drive through the battlefields prior to the downpours !
We left and headed home ABSOLUTELY exhausted ! It is good to be home in our beds tonight, however with thoughts of three GREAT days reliving American History from Jamestown - the American Revolution.
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