Yesterday, we spent the day at Hershey Park -- a chocolate-themed amusement park built by and named for the founder of the famous chocolate company, for those who aren't familiar with it.
Stuart's company sponsors its annual company picnic there which means we get free tickets to go to a place that would otherwise cost us well over $100 to visit. The parking isn't included, but that's only $10 for the day...but yesterday we were blessed by another person's generosity, and when we arrived at the pay booth, ready to hand in our $10, the attendant told us that someone had given her a free parking pass so we could park for free. Talk about elation!
Since I'm now over 7 months pregnant, I didn't have many options ride-wise...which meant quite a bit of waiting and watching. But I had a good time, nonetheless, only losing my good humor a few times during the long, hot day. The kids enjoyed riding with Stuart and that was fun to watch.
They endured being stuck on a kiddie water ride during a drenching downpour. Kind of ironic given the fact that they didn't want to get "too wet." We all had a good laugh about it afterwards, squelching around the rest of the park in the scorching heat.
Edward got to try a few new rides this year since he grew into a new "candy category." He was a Reese's last year...and now he's a Hershey bar so being taller meant finally being able to ride the...bumper cars! He was hooked.
Of course I saw this:
...which meant I couldn't go on them this year.
(This is probably one of my favorite-most rides now. I found bumper cars are a GREAT way to get out any aggressive driving tendencies/habits/needs. *wink*)
Edward also tried a roller coaster -- his first ever. But he wasn't too keen after the seatbelt/bar pressed in too tightly on his tummy. Still, he's getting braver.
We had a yummy dinner of hamburgers/chicken/hotdogs, salad, and ice cream. Of which the kids consumed 6 or 7 ice creams each. Hey, well, we figure it's the only time of year they can do that, so after all that walking, why not? Edward managed to get into the wrong company's dinner line and come back to the table with a slab of roast beef. Oops.
After dinner, I went on my first ride: the Monorail. It was fun and took us all around the park above the various sections and through a small park of the Hershey town. We went into Chocolate World after that and took the chocolate tour (for the umpteenth time) which rounded out our visit nicely with two free samples of chocolate at the end.
Tired and full of food, chocolate, and sunshine...we found our car and headed back home.
It was quite a full day!
1 comment:
I'm so glad you had fun! I remember Hershey Park - we went there growing up. You look great by the way! :) have a great week
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