Who can resist a city where the streetlights are shaped like kisses? Certainly not us, and so we road-tripped to Hershey, Pennsylvania for the weekend. After checking in to our hotel on Friday night, we took a left onto Chocolate Ave. and another left to Cocoa St. ending up at the Hershey Lodge for a late night snack of waffle fries and Chocolate Ketchup.
Chocolate ketchup tastes much better than it sounds. It combined two of Kathi's great loves in this world (well, three if you include the company she was with). Saturday morning, our friends Dave, Jana, and Zola Lunt met us at the entrance to Chocolate World for a free (yes!!) tour of how Milton S. Hershey built his empire and addicted the world to his milk chocolate products. Prior to our tour, though, Zola christened the trip with her own creation of the Hershey squirts.
Gabby, Harmony, and Olympia serenaded us through the (free) tour of the process of making delicious milk chocolate. They sang about the mooo-vement of cocoa beans from tropical regions and acoustically utter-ed to us explanations of the breaking and conching processes that go into making Hershey's chocolate.
At the end of our tour, Hershey's version of the Wal-Mart greeters lured us down the gift shop by giving free Hershey's Bliss bites. We couldn't resist the massive assortment of Hershey's products at the gift shop (including a five-pound chocolate bar and a t-shirt that reads, "I traded my brother for a Hershey's"), and bought a bottle of Reese's Peanut Butter cup ice cream sauce for $2.65. At the local grocery store later that night we found the same bottle for $1.89. Time for more coupon-clipping to make up for this appreciable loss.
Without knowing the extent of our fiduciary mistake, we indulged in creamy, rich Hershey's chocolate milkshakes for mid-morning snacks. Our chocolate cravings had then been satisfied and we thought we should burn off the extra calories with a little exercise. The game was trying to form your body into the shape of a Hershey building. Kathi's demonstration of the Hershey smokestacks took first prize. The picture of Chad imitating the corkscrew rollercoaster is, unfortunately, not family-friendly, but it did take second prize.
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