Chocolate World

Today we slept in a bit after a super exhausting day yesterday.  Logan was up through the night a bit with gas...I'm guessing because we had dinner at 9pm and that dinner consisted of fries, pizza and hamburgers.  No more 9pm dinners on this trip.

We got ready, checked out of our hotel and headed to Hershey's Chocolate World to do the Chocolate Tour and maybe see a few other cool things.  Tyler and I were checking out the website last night and realized that each activity costs about $10-$15 per person, so we'll have to limit the activities today.

First we went on the tour (which was free..yay!) and learnt about how Milton Hershey started and we got to ride on a chocolate car through a fake factory to see how the chocolate and candies are made.

They gave us a sample of some new candy called Hershey Pieces that were quite good.  It was an almond, dipped in chocolate with a candy coating (kind of like M&M's).  They came in Dark, Milk and White Chocolate.

Next we went into the Chocolate Store which was about the size of Superstore, but with only Hershey products for sale.  It was crazy!

Then we decided our one paid activity for the day would be to create our own chocolate bars.

We got geared up in our aprons and hair-nets.  Tyler even had to wear a beard-net.

You got to choose between Milk, Dark and White Chocolate for the base.

The you chose what ingredients went inside.  Choices included: Pretzel pieces, butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, almonds, pop rocks, and raspberries.

Then your chocolate bar would be coated in milk-chocolate and you had the choice of sprinkles, or no sprinkles.

We even got to design our candy bar wrappers.

It was pretty cool.  Can't wait to sample.

Lucy's creation was milk chocolate with butterscotch chips

Max's creation was white chocolate with chocolate chips and sprinkles

Logan's creation was milk chocolate with pretzel pieces and sprinkles

And Tyler and I had milk chocolate, butterscotch chips and almonds.

What a great day at Hershey.  It was just after lunch when we headed out, so we picked up some groceries at the local supermarket and got on the road to go to Washington DC.