Thursday, April 17, 2008- Hershey

We went to McDonalds this morning where we have been posting our blogs. It was there that we received the sad e-mail that we would not be meeting with Scott’s friend Tricia today. She had a death in the family and had to cancel our plans to meet.

We left Gettysburg anyway, mainly because Julie had worked so hard to pack up the van last night. We went to Hershey where the girls rode the Hershey Chocolate World ride twice and went to the 3-D movie that they have there.

We weren’t in any big rush to get anywhere, so after lunch we went to ZooAmerica, adjacent to Hershey Park. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that our memberships in the Buffalo Zoo got us in free. Anna saw a small lizard that seemed to desperately want to get to her. Emma liked that lizard too. Anna also liked seeing the curled up armadillo peeking out and we all liked the roadrunner that was dashing and flying around its habitat. We got some upclose looks at some alligators and saw quite a few different owls and birds. It's a small little zoo, but the exhibits seem to give you an intimate feeling with the animals.

We continued on to the Bethlehem area but were too late to try to go to the Crayola factory today. We got a room at the Farifield Inn & Suites in Bethlehem. That’s where we’ll settle down for the night now.