Turn up your volume as you read along....we've had a busy, full, fun day starting with a very good Amish-style country breakfast at our inn. Then we were off to the country and stopped at a farm home and got some cinnamon bread (could've bought lots more, but decided my hips didn't need all those goodies)! Enjoyed the ride thru Lancaster County ...
Tobacco drying in the barn
Pretty Amish farm house where we bought our bread - beautiful lush flowers everywhere
and nary a weed in sight!!!
Spent the next several hours in Gettysburg and took the guided tour (guide drove our car) and what was suppsoed to be a 2 -hour trip was 2 hrs. 45 min. Ted, our guide is a history buff (big time) and was so aminated as he described what all developed on July 1-3, 1863 in the Battle of Gettysburg when 51,000 lost their lives.
Ted, made us feel we were there right in the heart of the deadliest battle ever on US soil.
Ted in front of a fallen soldier at the Louisiana memorial
Day 3 of the Battle of Gettysburg at Little Round Top
We drove thru Harrisburg and onto Hershey. Very interesting story about Milton Hershey and how the candy bar, cocoa ( in my cupboard back home), chocolate syrup for Mark's ice cream, etc., etc. came about! Good self-guided tour and then enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate and cupcake (all Hershey's, of course) in the Zooka Cafe. Milton Hershey founded a school in 1909 for children in need and today, it continues to thrive. Drove to the beautiful Hershey Hotel which Milton and his wife, Catherine (Kitty) built and been in operation since 1933. It is beautiful (totally full tonight) and sits high overlooking Hershey with flowers, flowers everywhere!
Hershey Kiss in on every lamp post and when we got out of the car - even smelled like
"CHOCOLATE"
We checked 2 more hotels - totally full tonight (according to the hotel staff.....all Irene related with many from New York who've escaped to Harrisburg - 3.5 hours away). We got a room at Country Inn and Suites. Normally we do not do chain restaurants, but that's what was in this area, we were tired of driving and so...had a nice dinner at TGI Friday's.
One week ago we were in NYC with Philip and Annette - spent the afternoon in Manhattan and it was such a bustling place. Tonight, as we watch the Weather Channel, Times Square is abandoned!
Skies looked threatening all day, but just a few sprinkles off and on and windy. The rain is really coming down now and we could get 1-2".
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Pat: Guess everyone is heeding the warnings if you had to go to several hotels to find a room. Glad you found one and did not have to drive on and on. We did Hershey with the kids a longgggggggg time ago and they loved it. Took the animated tour and ended up in the chocolate room at Hershey. Could have stayed there another day just to see every kind of chocolate concoction you can imagine. Scott bought a Tee shirt with a Hershey Bar on it that he wore until it was threadbare. That was his favorite Tee for years. We had a lot of overcast skies today, but sun too. Might be heading to the lake tomorrow if the weather holds. Have a good time visiting around Pennsylvania. JudyBsagmer
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