Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown travel study trip

Yep... that's where I've been for most of this week! I went on the Historic Virginia travel study trip.  Was a little worried about it at first, since most of the other people going were total strangers (only one person I actually knew at all, and only one other that I'd ever even talked to once before)... but it turned out pretty well.  I ended up getting to know the "not quite total stranger, but not someone I knew either" person of the group and talking to her a lot, about all sorts of weird random things (things that came up--Art History assignment, since we're both in that class but at different times; asparagus turning people's pee green; how conversations tend to wander into weird seemingly-unrelated things if they go on for a long time uninterrupted; silly things to do to fight off boredom... and so on.)  And of course looked around at tons of stuff in Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown (but mostly Williamsburg--we were there two days, while with the other two we had to split a day between them.)  Watched a bunch of reenactments of Revolutionary War-era stuff going on, sat in on a fake witch trial (based very closely on partial records left from an actual witch trial), visited a bunch of colonial-era shops and stuff that actually did things the way they would've been done back then, ate food (including some really good pizza and an Italian sub at this restaurant called Stephano's, fish & chips at the Jamestown visitor's center, and a very mediocre "Thanksgiving dinner" at another restaurant followed by a much-better bowl of pasta, orange soda, and some pumpkin pie at the same restaurant), got some random silly souveniers (a wooden toy pistol, alphabet-dice, chocolate covered peanuts, and a bag of pasta shaped like turkeys!), and so on.  I even got some work done on both the NaNoWriMo story I'm writing (not much, but...) and The K'hyurbhi Lands (started on another of the few maps I need to make before I can release a demo.)

...I would say more here, but I already had to write journal entries for the trip in order to get credit for it, and I have a pizza that needs to be eaten.

EDIT: Silly quotes and assorted randomness from the trip...

1. Little stone Daleks.  Yes, apparently the parking area of the hotel we stayed in had these short squat little stone things around the edges that were shaped a bit like Daleks.  Oddly, I don't remember seeing them still there when we were leaving... uh-oh.  They must've un-statuified like that one in the Pandorica episode.
2. Bumper Stickers: "Keep honking, I'm reloading" and "Politicians and diapers need to be changed often, and for the same reason."  Both on the same vehicle, too.
3. The reason why the bakery is hidden behind the tavern--because its "the secret bakery where they make the bread that the British don't approve of."
4. "No butts and snakes."  A quote from when we were talking about how the courtroom where the witch trial took place had an apse, which I misheard as "ass" and then "asp."
5. "We're not Roman Catholics, we don't torture and burn people..." ...shortly after talking about how the punishment for perjury is to put someone in the stocks and then possibly cut off their ears.
6. "It's allowed in the Massachusetts courts!" "This is not Massachusetts!"
7.  "I doubt Georgia not being able to send representatives, because Jamaica did!"
8. "I understand that the cell reception in '79 is pretty bad." (1779, that is.) 
9. "You're free to explore the property, they're not home."
10. "Olde English Bulldogge" (overheard in the street; someone apparently was telling someone that you had to spell the name of the dog breed that way)
11. Pineapples: they were everywhere. Apparently a symbol of hospitality; I didn't know that.
12. Odd things you see when glancing at someone's "things I'm thankful for" list: Vacuums, tennis shoes, Winnie the Pooh, and... sex!? Wait a second... on a Mormon's thankfulness list? On a non-married Mormon's thankfulness list?? Hmmm...
13. "Shrimp Dip Kit with recipe for party shrimp dip -- contains tiny wild cocktail shrimp."
14. "HAPPY THANK GIVING"
15. "That's the poopdeck.  You can take a poop right off the deck."
16. "No projectile... we'd like to sink the ferry, but I don't think VDOT would appreciate that."  
17. "Professor Brotherson convinced both of us to kiss the pig."
18. "If you ignite the powder what happens? ...A boom! ...Hopefully..."
19. "What belt do you have? It's not one of the light-colored ones, is it?" An older guy, to a little kid showing off his karate skills.
20. "A faggot of sweet herbes" -- from a 1607 recipe
21. "Who wins?" "The girl!"
22. "It's artillery, it's close enough, get out of the way!"
23. "Pig bladder: nature's saran-wrap."
24. "I did not cook the bladder."
25. "Now I've got pig bladder juice all over me."  
26. "You guys actually eat that stuff?" "...Not really."
27. "How many of us have taken the lid off a jar and eaten it?"