Today our goal is to arrive in Hershey Pennsylvania in time to get Mary-Jeanine into a quilt show and the rest of us to Hershey Park. We have been to south central PA many times. But, somehow, we have always managed to miss Hershey. The one time Mary-Jeanine and I did make it into town back in 1990 it was rainy, dreary, and downright unpleasant. We took pictures of Hershey kiss shaped lamp posts and moved on.
This time, egged on by visions of a modern Willy Wonka’s Chocolate factory the kids are game for getting up at 6 AM so we can have time to get there and have enough time with Mr. Wonka to beat out all those loser kids and inherit the magical factory.
It rained all the way there. Alex googled the weather and it said “Rain. Then more rain. And then, thundershowers.” Oy. Not a great time for an outdoor water/coaster/entertainment park where we only have a few hours to squeeze out enough entertainment for the wheelbarrow of cash it is going to cost to get in.
All is not lost though. After dropping Mary-Jeanine off, we go to Hershey’s Chocolate world with the entire vacationing population of New Jersey. Apparently we aren’t the only ones scared of riding roller coasters in thunderstorm.
It was a place we were REQUIRED to go to, but I don’t think we will come back. Once we’ve gone through the nice, but fake factory tour, we head out again and we coast into a station to get 19.89 gallons of gas for our 20 gallon tank. Then, off to Julia’s favorite vacation destination... the outlet mall.
we took a tour of a weaving mill...very very old machines and an even older owner who gave us a personal tour.
For those of you who are familiar with Organic Gardening, Rodale Institute in central PA is the mecca.
Ground Hogs are all over our State Park Campground. Also called Wood chucks, but we like to call them Ground Chucks. lol
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