The Day Bob Has Been Waiting For

It was a 25-minute ride from our motel in Harrisburg to Hershey, PA and Hershey Park.  It was not a really busy day there, I guess, but there were a lot of cars anyway.  We found a good parking space.  One of our pet peeves is that we get two parking passes, but we only take one parking space.  In this case it did not matter because parking is free for three hours; after that it would have cost us $15 dollars each.  It didn’t; we made it out after 3 hours and 15 minutes, but they were not interested in charging us on the way out.

The Park is only in proximity to the actual plant.  Nobody gets to see how the candy is made inside the actual plant anymore.  This is a full-blown theme park and resort.  But they do give several nice experiences.  We bought a package with three things on it.

Here we are going in:

And here we are inside:

Have you ever done a 4-D Movie before.  Our first event was a 4-D flick.  It was oriented for kids, but we got into it anyway because of the media.  Mist on our faces, wind on our feet, and a chair the shook all put us in that 4th dimension of the movie.  It was cool.  Objects would fly right at us, and we could feel the wind and shaking of our seat as they passed.  Fun.

Part of our ticket was a meal pass for the food court.  Three big options:  pizza for the kids, a hot meal for the old folks, and sandwich with soup for the middle group.  We had more than we could eat.  Bob had chicken, new potatoes, and mac and cheese.  Andy had pulled pork, mac and cheese, and slaw.  Excellent–all at a fair price; we were surprised.

Next we got suited up:

Now we were ready to make our own personal Hershey Bar.  We actually stood in line and entered data in computers along the way.  Then we watched the machine make what we ordered.  Along the way we could follow the Bar with our name on the screen like this:

Above is my bar getting stuff I ordered put in it.  This all took time, but we would up with these:

Now, here is the question:  how do you preserve these candy bars on a motorcycle in 95 degree heat?  Answer–you don’t.  When we stopped for the night they were melted.  We put them in the refrigerator for a couple of hours in order to recover something.  It worked–in a way.

It was a fun day.  It was a hot day.  It was a tired by 5:00 pm day.  Good night all.  Love you Lil.