Hershey

We spent the whole day in Hershey Pennsylvania, Milton Hershey created this model industrial city and I am sure every resident would tell you it is wonderful, the kind of place you would want to raise your children. As he and his wife had no children he left his entire fortune to the town and a school for the less fortunate.

We started at the museum which was very well done, it did a good job of discribing how he went from rags to riches with a few bumps in between.

Mr. Hershey created a huge theme park as he wanted lots of recreation for his town people, we went to the World of Chocolate, which is free.



You get on a ride and it takes you through the process of how he makes a chocolate bar, very amuzing.

And when the tour ends you end up in this huge candy store.


We then took just a little drive around the city to see a little more of it.

The lamp posts are kisses, so cute.

We took a drive through the school he developed it was amazing and then having to pass a couple hours before our evening entertainment I drug Ron through the garden. As it has not froze here yet the roses, mums and dahlias were still beautiful. It was all decorated up for fall.

Across the town you could see the stacks from the actual factory, and note below the stacks some of the theme park.

The garden had hints of hershey, these kisses would send magical hisses of steam up through the tops as you walked by.

Some really cute sculptures.

A good pumpkin displays.

The Japanese garden was lovely.

This one if for Matt and Curt, knew the would like it.

When I see these little statues, I miss my kids at home.

Great sculpture, right down to the mud on his foot.

Overlooking the town.

We had a good day and finished the day with a hockey game, the Hershey Bears, the AHL for the Washington Capitals vs Scranton Penguins (AHL for the Pittsburgh Penguins). We had never seen such a clean arena, and when the evening was over, everyone picked up their garbage to put into the trash cans, amazing.

Just a little note to our son-in-law Mike and grandson Curtis, who lost his mom(Curts grandma) this week, hope you are both doing okay, our thoughts are with you everyminute of the day. Love ya.