Hershey's Chocolate Factory....I'm Drooling!!

Last week we had some more visitors to our neck of the woods! Jason's uncle and aunt (Bryan & Lynda) were visiting their children/grandchild (Brad, Kerri and little Kaci) in Virginia and they were all able to come and spend a few nights with us. We joined them on a little excursion up to Hershey, Pennsylvania on Friday and the kids had a ball (the adults had a pretty good time too!)

We started off in "Chocolate World" where we took some fun pictures of the different candy charicatures...

We then met up with the rest of the gang to take our "Chocolate Tour." This was such a fun tour that was very engaging for kids. We all sat in roller-coaster like chairs and it wheeled us around for about 15 minutes, explaining the different steps that go into creating the wide variety of Hershey chocolate candies. Then at the end you got a little sample of some yummy Hershey's chocolate. We had so much fun that we did the tour twice (after much pleading by both Abby and Aunt Lynda!!)

After the tour, Abby and Kaci tried their hand at making their own little box of Hershey's kisses. Don't they make adorable little factory workers??? (I especially love the ring of chocolate around Kaci's mouth....hmmm, I think the workers were trying a little bit too much of their product!!!)

Of course Mr. Landon was busy playing the role of foreman...

We could have done a lot more while we were there (trolley rides, children's garden, animal park, taste testing, and of course there' s "Hershey Park" itself which is a huge amusement park similar to Six Flags), but we decided to just do the "free" stuff that day. After doing everything we could without spending a dime (including leaving within two hours so that we didn't even have to pay for parking), we headed back to Hagerstown and enjoyed some Subway sandwiches at City Park. We had a great time and it was so much fun to get caught up with family again!!

Brad, Kerri and Kaci went back to Virginia that night while Bryan and Lynda stayed the night with us again so that they would be closer to the airport for flying out the next day. Abby fell in love with Bryan and Lynda during their visit and she soon started calling them "Grandma and Grandpa." We tried a few times to explain that they were really her Great Uncle and Aunt, but she insisted that they were another set of Grandparents for her to play with and show off all of her neat "tricks" she likes doing around the house...I guess you can never have enough "grandmas and grandpas" in your life!!