At the Chopping mall!
A couple days ago we went to Mt.
Vernon. We rode the subway for a ½ hour then rode a bus for a ½
hour. We watched an introduction movie. It said to prepare at least
three and a half hours to see everything. I was thinking we were
never going to stay that long. We ended up staying 6 hours! We
walked around part of his 8,000 acre yard, before doing a tour
through the mansion. At first the house was small, but George
Washington kept adding on and on til it was a mansion. There were a
lot of rooms and all the beds looked like they were for midgets.
When we got out of the house, we went to the wharf. It had a good
view of the river. After that we saw some sheep, they were so lazy,
they just sat in the shade all day. Then we watched a demonstration
of how they got the seeds out of wheat. There was a 16 sided barn
with slots every few inches. They put wheat on the second floor and
had horses run around them. The seeds came out when the horses
stepped on them and fell through the slots to the first floor, where
people would sweep them up. Then you have to get a basket with a
little lip on it and fling the seed through the air so you don't have
a lot of straw type stuff in the baskets like in the picture below. It seemed like a lot of
work just for wheat. We walked and saw a slave house from there, it
was small and housed 8-10 people. They had very simple meals with a
lot of dairy.
Eventually, ice cream made it over to the Americas
from Europe, but it wasn't the ice cream I am used to. They had
flavors like Parmesan! In my mind, cheese and ice cream should NOT
go together. After all that we went and saw George Washington's
grave. While we were there we saw a lizard that was blue on its tail
and brown everywhere else. We walked to the slave memorial from his
grave, where we presented our eulogies (it was a school assignment to
make a eulogy for George Washington). The last thing we did is get
ice cream :). I got a dove bar. The chocolate on the outside was
delicious and the ice cream inside was also very good. Finally, we
rode the bus and subway back home
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| Me expertly flipping seeds in the air. All the chaff flies away in the wind leaving the wheat behind. |
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| Lazy sheep |
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| Joe as George Washington and me as Martha |
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| Slave cabin |
It rained the day we were ther, so we were only there about 2 hours. It was one of our favorite spots!
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