The Hershey Lodge has a coffee shop and cafe called the Cocoa Beanery, so we stopped for coffee before we checked out.
This has been a very nice place to stay for the holidays. I hope that we get to come back here again.
Angie loves museums, so our first stop of the day was The Hershey Story. It was a lot of fun and we took a bunch of pictures that I'll have to sort through and share after the holidays.
In addition to the museum, The Hershey Story has a kitchen called The Chocolate Lab where you can learn how to make a dessert. We made chocolate bowls and decorated them with frosting and sprinkles.
Next stop was Hershey's Chocolate World, which is an attraction not far from the entrance to Hersheypark. There's a massive Hershey store, a Chocolate World ride that I've been going on since I was a little kid, and newer attractions like Hershey's Really Big 3-D Show.
This year, they've introduced a Create Your Own Chocolate Bar activity. We made one stuffed with crisped rice, chocolate cookie bits, butter toffee and vanilla chips sealed inside a bar that's coated with red and green sprinkles which we're going to give to Grandpa as a Christmas present.
One of the coolest things we saw at Hershey's Chocolate World was a candy cottage is made up entirely of snacks. Chocolate bars made up the siding and the door, the shingles were made out of upside down Cookies n' Creme bars, and Kit Kats and Kisses were used throughout, including massive Hershey Kisses on the roof. We picked up a tabletop statue of this from the gift shop that we're going to put out every Christmas.
Last, but not least, we went to Hersheypark which was all decked out for Christmas. They even had a stable of reindeer.
We brought the video camera with us too. Sometime after the holidays, I'm going to see if I can get some footage from the tapes on YouTube to share on here.
