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Published: June 13th 2009
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Hershey's Chocolate World
The sign at the entrance to Hershey's Chocolate World in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Thursday, 11 June (Hershey & Lancaster): Today was our day to visit Hershey and the Amish country around Lancaster. After our morning coffee, we headed for Hershey to visit Hershey’s Chocolate World. We had no trouble finding it, although it seemed a lot further than I’d thought. We came into Hershey from the east on Hwy 322 and found signs directing us to the “Hershey Attractions” in the north central edge of Hershey. Besides Hershey’s Chocolate World, they also have a big amusement park (Hershey Park), a stadium (Hershey Arena), the Hershey Trolley Works, and ZooAmerica. Across the highway is a cool antique auto museum too. We’d really only come to see Hershey’s Chocolate World and take the free tour. Parking was a bit of a shock, with up to 2 hours free, 2-5 hours @ $10.00 and over 5 hours @ $30.00! We prudently planned on to stay less than 2 hours. The Chocolate Tour was pretty cool, especially since it was free. They even give you a small Hershey’s bar when you exit. The whole tour was a sit-down ride, depicting the whole process of making chocolate bars. Sort of like a fun house ride or Disney’s “It’s a
The Three Hostessows
The three cows that great and sing to you at the beginning of the free tour at Hershey's Chocolate World. Small World” ride. After the tour, we spent some time shopping in their giant store/souvenir shop, where besides a large variety of Hershey’s souvenirs, you can also buy more types and sizes of Hershey’s chocolate than you can imagine. It did seem however that many, if not most, of the chocolate bars and kisses were even more expensive than your local 7-11 or Wal-Mart! After buying a couple of souvenirs and a few chocolate bars, we decided to head to the Amish country for lunch. We both remember the “everyone sits at a long table together and shares the food” meal we’d had last time we were here, so we set out to find it. We ended up eatin gat the Good ‘n’ Plenty Family Restaurant in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania. It was very good although we opted for the $9.95 each meal with a choice of entrees, two side dishes, and two desserts, instead of the help-yourself-to-all-you-can-eat sit-down for $18.95. We weren’t that hungry! Manoli had beef stew, mashed potatoes and gravy, and a garden salad. I had ham, chow chow, and buttered noodles. Manoli had no room for dessert, so she had shoo-fly pie and apple crumb pie to go,
Lots of Kisses
Simulation of Hershey's Kisses rolling of the assembly line. I don't think they were real, and I couldn't reach them to ... try. and I had shoo-fly pie with ice cream. After lunch, we went to the Intercourse Pretzel Company for a demo/tour that was quaint but neat (and again free), and couldn’t resist a package of assorted pretzels. They also showed us how to make the pretzel shape and gave us a hunk of dough to try it with. I think mine came out better than Manoli’s! We then strolled around Intercourse for a while, shamelessly taking photos and videos of the shy Amish and their buggies. Afterwards, we’d intended to to tour the model railroad museum, but it was closed, so we continued to Strasburg and the famous Strasburg Railroad. Unfortunately, they were closing too, but we got to look at the cool locomotives and cars and I took a video of a small single-car train coming in. By this time, it was almost 6pm, so we wound our way back to the KOA. It seemed that no free maps covered both the areas of Hershey/Amish Country and Philadelphia, leaving the area between (where our KOA was) disconnected from each the other two. I’d recommend getting a state highway map. We finally reached our KOA and after reading a bit, I
Intercourse Pretzel Company
The beautiful front of the Intercourse Pretzel Company. went to our friendly Landhope Farms store and bought salads for dinner. I was going to rent a DVD of the Golden Compass for Manoli to watch on our laptop for $1.49 for the night, but noticed I could buy it there for only $1.99, so… Tomorrow we head to our Statue of Liberty tour and then to the Newburgh/NYC North KOA. Oh, our KOA’s WiFi was back up by the time we returned, so I posted the last two days and will do this one at the next KOA.
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