Vacation/Weekend Recap #19
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Well, I'm back!! We had a very nice overnight trip to...
HERSHEY PARK!!
My hubby got half price tickets back in the spring and then we noticed recently that they were going to expire in September, so we had to hustle to use them fast.
We did the park all day Thursday--just doing rides. Very tame weenie rides, because my daughter is NOT the adventurist sort. But that's okay with me. I'm not either. So there were no roller coasters in our itinerary. (Yay)
So here's some pictures from our short trip:
My daughter on a kiddie ride.
Hershey Park also had a small zoo. That is a porcupine in a tree.
And a prairie dog.
They had an "Aqua-show" with sea lions.
Sea lion doing a trick.
The next morning we went to Hershey Gardens. In there, they had a butterfly house with...uh, lots of butterflies. My daughter LOVED this.
My daughter actually took this picture.
I think she took this one, too.
The whole time I was in Hershey I was craving chocolate, and the only chocolate I had was the little free piece they give you after the chocolate tour. At what seemed to be 50% mark-up, I couldn't justify buying any. It was just as well, because when we came home I realized I had 2 six packs of Hershey bars in my freezer. Thus, craving satisfied.
9 comments:
Wow, sounds like you had a busy and fun weekend with the family! Glad to hear you could unwind a little!
OMG! Hershey Park was one of my father's favorite places to take us when we were kids. Of course they didn't have the water show back then. At that time visitors used to be able to walk through the factory. They stopped the walking tours when people started seeing things they shouldn't -- like rats.
I'm glad Hershey Park is still around because most of the places we went to like Olympic Park (Irvington), Palisades Park (across from New York) and Freedom Land (where JFK Airport now stands) have all disappeared!
Glad you had a good weekend. Great way to wrap up the summer.
I know what you mean about craving...I could use some chocolate about know, also. LOL. Great pictures. I wish I could take half as good pictures as your daughter does!!
We're going to Hershey Park next year for my BIL's birthday. He's a chocolate fanatic like none other. I plan to gorge myself until I'm sick and therefore, will want to avoid chocolate for the rest of my life.
What? It could work.
Awww... love the pics your kid took. *wg*
OMG! A Hershey Park? *eyes roll to back of head and mouth begins to foam*
;p
Your child took a fab photo - she may be a photographer in the making.
How fun is that? I want to come too. :-)
I was going to try and comment intelligently, great pics, wonderful vacation etc. but somehow I got hung up on that second last paragraph....two six packs of Hershey bars!!
mmm chocolate. :)
LOVED Hershey Park. We still talk about the Hershey Balloo show, which was both entertaining and a bit laughable. Is it still running?
Sounds like you had a great weekend.
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