September 30

 Last night my Dad came home from Europe and we were glad he could go with us to Hershey, PA. When we first arrived at Chocolate World, we saw how they packaged Hershey kisses. We got to be on the assembly line. After that we went on a ride that showed how they made chocolate products. It takes a lot of steps. Our next stop was the make your own chocolate bar. First you had to put on special hats and aprons so there was no hair in the chocolate. Here is how you made the chocolate. First you go and find an open touch screen. Once you get to the touch screen you scan your ticket and it will say your name. If your name is wrong then you press no that is not your name. If it is, you press yes. Once you are in you get to choose what type of base chocolate you will have. The base chocolates are white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. I chose white chocolate. And then you got to choose what goes in your base chocolate. I chose butterscotch chips and chocolate chips, they were the only ones that did not have peanuts in them, other than the raspberries, but I didn't like them. After that you got to go and see your chocolate bar with all of the ingredients being put in. When you finished looking at your chocolate bar, you got to design a seal for it. There were a bunch of different things you could put on. Here are the things I chose: my background color was green,  SCOTT'S, a cow that says Hershey's milk chocolate, Chocolate Lover, and a small hershey's. I got a Hershey's pillow and a tie dyed kisses shirt as souvenirs.

Next we went to the Chocolate museum that shows more history than Chocolate World.   We got to do a little scavenger hunt.  Well, not necessarily a scavenger hunt, but we got to see and find out how Hershey and his relatives were the same and different.  We also got to find out some facts about Hershey Pa.  We found out that if Hershey did go on the Titanic, lots of buildings would not have been built in Hershey.   We got to get a souvenir for completing the scavenger hunt.  It was a special Hershey's coin, but you couldn't spend it.  Also after you finished it, you got to take a picture of yourself and print our a pretend newspaper that talked about you as Hershey's apprentice.  Today was one of the best days of whole trip so far.

We drove to the hotel.  The good part was that we didn't have to drive for six hours.  It only took one.