Our Trip: Hershey

Well, chocolate will cheer anyone up! Even crabby 4-year-olds who have meltdowns…I can’t remember why. But it doesn’t make for wonderful smiley pictures!

Emry, Ellyson and a frowning Ethan upon entering Hershey’s Chocolate World.

 

Hershey’s Chocolate World is a nice, short, sweet (hah, hah!) place to stop on a trip. I’ve been there several times, although for Ed and the kids it was their first time. In general, it’s a large store of all things Hershey. But it does have a really neat ride through the “chocolate factory” to show how chocolate is made. There are also other things like a show and a creativity “kitchen” that you can pay to do, but we stuck with the free ride and spending money on candy. Now if you go to the amusement park just next door, that would be an all day trip. One I’m not personally anxious to try, although the kids thought it looked great!

 

Ethan on the ride through the making of chocolate.

 

Enjoying our free chocolate afterwards!

 

Since my last visit to Hershey (which has been over a decade), they’ve added a plaza between the Chocolate World and amusement park. We didn’t venture too far into the shopping and eateries, but we stopped for some photo-ops!

Emry and her favorite: The Hershey Kiss.

 

Ethan and his favorite: The Reese Cup.

 

Emry, Ethan and Ellyson on the chocolate height wall: Emry is a Reese Cup, Ethan is a Kiss and Ellyson is a Hershey Miniature.

 

After Chocolate World, we drove around Hershey a bit just to see the town and make one more stop: Primanti Brothers. A Pittsburgh staple, there is a location in downtown Hershey. This was Ellyson’s opportunity to be indoctrinated. She did eat her weight in French fries!

 

Ellyson at Primanti’s.

 

And then we headed home. Although, we had two last little adventures. One was just outside Harrisburg where we noted a plane circling near the airport, coming in rather low. Ed said after we saw it banking for a second lap: “I really think that’s Air Force One.” 

 

“What?” I responded. “Coming to pay off Wolf for illegally handing him Pennsylvania in the election?” 

 

But when the plane banked right in front of us…sure enough, we saw Air Force One in all its glory. (Although minus the so-called President. Apparently Air Force One uses the Harrisburg airport for repairs and maneuvers.) It was pretty neat.

 

And, finally, we stopped at Cabela’s on the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border. Why? Ed said we needed gas at the station next door.

 

Emry and Ethan at Cabela’s.