Day 10: July 6, 2010

We went to Hershey Park for the day.  Our first stop was Chocolate World.

Sitting on twizzlers...

We took the chocolate tour...

Cocoa Powder

This is mixed with sugar and milk.

This is what we go through in our house...

KISSES

We had their picture put a bottle of chocolate syrup.

Mid-morning snack

Now on to Hershey Park...  How do you measure up?

We had a Reese's and some Kisses.  If they saw their candy bar, they could ride the ride.

Haylee can be helpful at times with her brother.

More rides...

You can also visit Zoo America so that's where we headed next.

No I hadn't noticed.. thanks for pointing it out..

Skee -ball...

It's time to cool off a little.... show time

It was a great TAP show. 

Now to the water park.... 

A few more rides....

I wish we would have found this little scrammbler the night before and I would not had ridden the other one.

Heading back to the campground for our first attempt at cooking out.

Carson slept the whole time.  We tried several times to wake him up.

Haylee used a flashlight to make sure her hot dog wasn't too "black".

I think she cooked the marshmallow a little too long..

So she tries again...

That one looks just right....

Yummy smores...

Day 9: July 5, 2010

We left Philadelphia and headed towards Valley Forge.  This was not part of the plan but since it was so close, we could not skip it. 

The kids looking at the soldiers things.

Wildlife....

An old bridge...

Train station....

The ticket counter...

Washington's headquarters...

As we drove through Pennsylvania, we saw some awesome farms and lots of corn. 

This was the sight at the local Family Dollar.

I guess we have found "Amish Country."

The town that everyone seems to visit is Intercourse, PA. So we could not pass through it without stopping.

We were trying to find a pretzel place where you could make your own.

We tried several stores for this venture.

This factory does tours but we were too late.  They did not allow visitors to make pretzels today because the humidity was too high.  Haylee was not happy.  We decided just to try one from here too.

She liked it...  It was sugar & spice.

Next stop HERSHEY!!

The kids have been BEGGING to camp in a tent.  When looking for places to stay near Hershey, we discovered that they have a campground.  So we are going to give camping a try.

About 30-45 minutes later....

Since we arrived by 7:00, we were able to go to Hershey Park for a couple of hours tonight.

The kids rode about 10 rides.

They loved riding the motorcycles because they had horns!!

They wanted to ride every ride and that included one that neither David nor I wanted to ride but they were too little to ride by themselves....and now I know why.   It has been a long time since I have gotten sick on a ride because I just avoid them.  It didn't look so bad before I got on but... I was wrong.  I was dizzy for most of the rest of the night...  at least it was almost over..

Later David rode a ride that "messed" him up too.  I was still not feeling well so there are no pictures of him.

Making some new friends