Friday, June 3, we pulled into space B62 at the Hershey PA TT Preserve. It was like pulling into home. This is a nice preserve we stayed in a few years ago when we came out to visit Luke and Bethany. It is still nice and we plan to stay here for the next 2 weeks.
We may not stay in the same space we are in now though. Once again, we have a bird that thinks his reflection in our trailer rear window is his enemy. He occupies his days attacking our window and calling his reflection dirty names. The first time we had this was in the spring in 2008 while we were on our mission in Oakland, CA. It went on all spring and part of the summer. Then this is the second time on this trip. The other time was another cardinal too. We may move so we get out of his territory.
We went through a little of Hershey as we came to the preserve. It has BIG Hershey Kisses for their street lights!
So, anyway, we set up camp and then excitedly waited for Luke to come up to spend the night and Jed and Kate to come west to spend the night.
Ann began fixing dinner when we were called and told they were on the way.
Luke arrived first and we had some more nice visit until Jed and Kate arrived about 10:00 PM. We had a nice campfire and made s'mores, staying up until midnight, just playing with the fire and visiting. Then Luke slept in his tent outside and Jed and Kate stayed on our couch in the trailer.
Here are Luke, Ann and Jed sharing stories the next morning.
Saturday morning we decided to go explore Hershey. Having to purchase fuel first, we pulled in and saw this '57 sitting there. Wayne drooled and the owner let us get a couple shots of his car.
When I grow up........
We drove to the Hershey amusement park and factory tour called "Chocolate World" and went in for a tour.
It is has a wonderful ride that simulates a tour through the factory and explains how they make Hershey's Milk Chocolate.
You load into little cars and then go through the experience.
It is a cute ride with lots of fake machinery.
And we got to learn where the milk comes from!!!
Then at the end of the ride, it drops you off in the largest chocolate store we have ever seen!!! Wayne and Kate got really excited, where upon Jed.......
.......used his calculator to explain to Kate how tight their budget is.
But then Kate and Wayne suddenly were no where to be found!! Jed, Ann and Luke spent some time on the upper deck looking for them!
The Jed had an idea as to where to look! And around the next corner he found.....
...... his athletic, marathon runner wife taking lessons from her father-in-law.......
... that was gathering supplies for tonight's dinner!!!
Jed managed to stifle the spending spree and and managed to get out of the building fairly cheaply. He was quite excited!
Then on the drive back to the trailer, Kate announced that she and Wayne had secretly bought a few extra candy bars! See the excitement on Jed's and Luke's faces!!!!
But, Ann managed to stop the candy eating and made home made soup for dinner. Everyone enjoyed the meal.
Then we went miniature golfing, but the pro rental shop was closed, so we improvised!!! We played with rocks and had to toss the rocks through the 18 hole course! Here you see Ann teeing off as Kate, the score keeper, keeps a close eye on all the players!
Jed was quite into the game until he got distracted.......
It is just not good to have ducks and geese around when Jed plays golf. Though these geese do not realize how much luckier they are than the ducks in Medford!!!!
Wayne, using his patented form, puts for par.
Luke, the master of gentle, negotiates a rather difficult angle!
The players and scorekeeper pose for a post game photo.
It was a good couple days with three of our family. We had fun, but missed the rest of the gang. We all look forward to our next full family gathering and are anxiously awaiting Jared and Angi's announcement as to its time and location!!!
Meanwhile, Ann and I will spend the next couple weeks here in Hershey PA catching up on the ins and outs of doing the things we love.
Always happy to keep up with your guys' travels. Hope you didn't eat too many s'mores! (Not that I'm convinced there is such a thing...)
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