Mmm... Chocolate.

Becky convinced me last Sunday to take a drive up to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania near the capital city of Harrisburg (which I wouldn’t have known was the capital of PA), and to the town of Hershey. Back in the day, Mr. Hershey thought it would be a good idea to make chocolate out of cocoa beans like they were doing in Europe, and he built this factory in Pennsylvania and then built the town around it for all of his workers. It was similar to being near Disneyworld, where Disney owns everything and Mickey Mouse is everywhere. In Hershey, even the street lights are shaped like Hershey Kisses. The factory is still there, along with Hershey Park and Chocolate World, with a bunch of chocolate themed things to do. We took the free tour, and got some stuff in the gift shop. Paul enjoyed himself, Adam mostly just slept. As usual.

Inside they had a chocolate tasting tour, some 3D show, the "factory" tour (which wasn't the real factory, but still fun), and Paul got a chance to be a factory worker.

Everybody needs a little chocolate bar every now and then, like this!

Times are tough in this economy, we gotta put this kid to work. He looks thrilled about it. Now that he's got experience, we're filling out applications for him at Nike and Reebok working on the assembly line.

What Mom? What? How do you want me to pose? I already did what you wanted. I'm standing here. Just take the picture. Just take it and let's go.

Well, I guess you're never too young to have a chocolate Hershey bar.

Overall it was worth driving up for. I've gotta say the Coca-Cola plant in Atlanta was a bit more fun, since you actually got to see real Coke being made, but it also was $15 a piece, and this one was free (or at least the things we did were free). So we had a good time anyway. Now, if only I could find out where the Mountain Dew plant is...