We are home! But we ended the trip with one last stop, at Hershey’s Chocolate World. We took a fun trolley ride around the area, and learned a bit of the history behind the Hershey chocolate factory. The kids thought it was fun, especially when they periodically handed out bits of candy! Then we went [...]
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Today was our last full day here, so we packed it with all the things we couldn’t get done in the rain the other day. First we headed to The Amish Village. It was wonderful! We started out with a very informative, guided tour through a farmhouse: Got to meet some lovely farm animals: And [...]
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We packed up the car with water (not nearly enough), swimsuits, sunblock and kids and headed to Dutch Wonderland to open the park. Apparently, it was a day for cheesy photo ops – seriously, the girls insisted on posing in each and every one of these places and wouldn’t budge until I’d taken their pictures! [...]
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The forecast today was for “scattered thunderstorms”, so we decided to leave our second day of Dutch Wonderland for later in the week and switch a few other plans around. We thought that taking the train in the rain would be fun, so we headed for the Strasburg Railroad. (To say that we got drenched [...]
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Road trip time! We switched Anna forward facing a few weeks ago, and let me just say, it’s a trip listening to her narrate our drive now. “Daddy, red light! Green light, Daddy! Wait Daddy, the letters on the truck – go back so I can read the letters on the truck, Daddy!” Anyway, we [...]
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We made a quick trip this weekend to NYC. Our first trip with Anna out of diapers…let’s just say, I would be happy to never see the inside of a rest stop bathroom again! The purpose of our visit? To surprise Poppy for his birthday, of course! It was fun to get all the cousins [...]
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Our Magical Express bus to the airport was scheduled to pick us up at 5:55 AM, which meant we had to get up at oh-dark-thirty to make it there in time. We were sort of hoping the big storm headed up the East coast would delay us a bit, but no such luck. So, back [...]
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Our last day at Disney – this trip anyway – and we headed back to Epcot to see some of the things we didn’t get to the first time there, and to finish our world tour! First, we headed for The Seas. The Nemo ride was a huge hit with the girls, and Anna has [...]
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Today was another sunny day, and we walked over to Magic Kingdom to meet some fairies! Denis and Anna walked through the park while Carrie and I took the railroad around. We stood in line for a very, very long time to meet the fairies. But it was worth it to see how excited Carrie [...]
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Another quick breakfast in the room, because today we headed to Epcot! And we finally had some nice sunny weather! We went through Spaceship Earth first, which has definitely changed since we were there last time. One annoying thing was that the ride kept stopping (sometimes several times in a row, just a little bit [...]
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