Disney may be the happiest place on earth, but Hershey, Pennsylvania is definitely the sweetest 🍫🍫🍫 Every time we turned around someone gave us a piece of chocolate or a chocolate bar! We literally have a bag of free chocolate for the rest of the trip.

Mike had been torn about what he was looking forward to most on this trip: history or chocolate. Needless to say he was very excited about a day all about chocolate 🍫

We were a little disappointed that Hershey Park wasn’t open during our trip (only open on weekends until May), but Hershey World was open – so off we went for our Day of Chocolate

We started with the 4D movie – a 3D movie with the extras like wind, water spray, something making your seat rattle and feel like there’s something running past your feet. It was cute. Someone on staff went around interviewing folks while we were standing in line, so during the show a computer generated Reece’s cup interacted with the audience. He had a good time picking on the folks from NJ.

Our next stop was a chocolate tasting class, where we got to taste the cacao seeds before sweetening – like eating the middle of a pecan shell. And different kinds of chocolate – milk chocolate, dark chocolate, organic chocolate and a “smokey/woodsy” chocolate (it was not something I want to eat again😝)

We voted on which flavors we found in each chocolate. We also learned that Hershey actually employs “palleteers” – so your job is to literally taste chocolate all day!!! Talk about job goals 😀

Then we moved on to what we were most excited about – making our own chocolate bars! Check out these good looking people 🤣😂🤣… well, at least 2 of them are cute in hairnets (here’s a hint, it’s not Mike and I)

So we each scanned our tickets and started creating our bars. We had to decide on what kind of chocolate, what would go inside and whether we wanted to have sprinkles on top. Everyone worked on their on computers and we couldn’t see each other’s choices. The funny thing was the Michael and Leo created the exact same bar: white chocolate with Oreo cookie crumbles inside covered with milk chocolate and sprinkles! We got to watch our bars through each step…adding the ingredients Watching it be covered in chocolate and then shake off any extra…

And then patiently wait as our bars went through the cooling machine…

and then ta-dah! The first ever Michael Bar…

And Leo Bar (Heidi and Mike bars too)

We finished up our day at Hershey with a Trolley ride through Hershey. It was really interesting, and every 3-5 minutes they passed around a tray of… you guessed it, Hershey Kisses 😘 That’s when I heard Mike say something I never thought I’d hear him say: “I can’t eat anymore chocolate.” 😳🤭😳

Afterwards, we headed back to the hotel for some time at Water Works. We loved the Ninja Warrior part 🤪

And the water-basketball-court

And we even ran into a giant KitKat before we headed back for showers and dinner

A lady at the check-out at Hershey recommended we have dinner at Fenicci’s in the town of so off we went.

In our continued tradition of trying to eat at local restaurants, and always seeming to find the most delicious dinners – WOW! Everything was delicious! We ate until we were almost sick. It was that good!

We waddled back to the hotel, with $5 for the arcade burning a hole in our pockets 🤪… we earned some tickets, spent 10 minutes picking which worthless toy we would buy, and were then surprised when they broke within 60 seconds!

It was a fun day, but were wiped (which is why I couldn’t write the blog last night… I fell asleep holding my phone)

Off to the last leg of our trip – Stoystown andGettysburg