It’s Thursday and time to say goodbye to Hershey, but we need breakfast (because it’s been 5 minutes since we last ate 🤪) And lookie here, there’s a Duck Donuts right here in Hershey!

We all loved this sign in the restaurant – so if you are negative around us, we’ll be calling you donut hole from now on 😉

Anyway, if you’ve never been to a Duck’s donuts, ordering is a process! You start with a base, then add a coating, then a topping, then a drizzle. Seriously, here the order form

We thoroughly enjoyed watching them create our dozen

I know we created these, but I think this is a pretty impressive dozen

Tummies full, we headed to Stoystown for the Flight 93 Memorial

This was a last minute addition to our itinerary but we are so glad we added it. This was the flight on 9/11 where the passengers fought back, and the flight went down in a field in Pennsylvania instead of the Capital or White House.

In case you can’t tell, it is freezing! Like 28 degrees with 20mph is wind freezing😬

It was a very simple Memorial, but we all thought it was perfect. Some of the tributes left were extremely touching, and we were each a little choked up at times. (It was probably good that it was so cold because you were distracted by your own chattering teeth.)

As we started away from the Memorial and toward Gettysburg, we passed a little cafe, so we turned around and headed to Lincoln’s Cafe in Bucktown for lunch.

It was a really cute cafe, with portraits of Abraham Lincoln made of pennies

The owners, Jeff and Paula, are husband and wife and from the area. It was interesting to talk with them about how things happened that day, especially from folks who were right there.

We left Bucktown with very full bellies (again… all we’ve done is eat), and drove 2.5 hours to Gettysburg. Boys spent a few hours in the pool and then we ordered pizza from a local pizzeria, Tommy’s Pizza (again with the eating) It was delish!

Now the boys have mapped out our Gettysburg Trail tomorrow and we are ready to start the last leg of our vacation. I hope Mike can sleep tonight. He’s like a kid on Christmas Eve about going to Gettysburg 😊