My favorite part of any colonial home is the kitchen. I have never had a bad piece of bread or ginger cookie from one of these kitchens. Yummy!!! This one only had fake food in it though. :( If I were a colonial woman I don't know how I'd feel about the kitchen though as death due to infection from being burned in the kitchen was the second leading cause of death for women in those days.

Below is the house that George Washington stayed in while he and his troops were stationed in Valley Forge.
When Martha sent word that she would be joining George at the house for a while he immediately sent for a four poster bed. He didn't want his wife to have to sleep on an army cot as he had been doing. Good man!
This picture was actually taken before seeing Washington's house, but we got to see musket's firing (blanks of course). It's amazing the steps they were supposed to go through to get ready to shoot. However, this was the first time during the revolution in which troops were all taught to do things the same way. Previously all armies from different states had different ways of doing things. This unification of the army was a turning point in the war for America.

Oh, and that evening my dad showed us the musket he made from a kit with his dad. Apparently my grandpa shot his, but my dad never has. I think he should...how cool to shoot a musket! I enjoyed pretending I was shooting redcoats in the basement with it. :)