{"id":3345,"date":"2011-08-12T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2011-08-12T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T01:29:02","slug":"home-again-with-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/home-again-with-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Again. With Chocolate."},"content":{"rendered":"

We are home!\u00a0 But we ended the trip with one last stop, at Hershey’s Chocolate World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mmm, anthropomorphic chocolate...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We took a fun trolley ride around the area, and learned a bit of the history behind the Hershey chocolate factory.\u00a0 The kids thought it was fun, especially when they periodically handed out bits of candy!<\/p>\n

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Forget "cheese", say "chocolate"!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A nice old-fashioned trolley car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wouldn't it be fun to live on "Chocolate Ave"?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we went on the Great American Chocolate Tour.\u00a0 Anna loved this – in fact, we had to go on the “cow roller coaster” once more before we left, because she really, really loved it.\u00a0 (Luckily, it was free.)<\/p>\n

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Anna loved those singing cows...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carolyn would have liked to create her own candy bar, but at $15 per person (and we all<\/em> would have had to make our own, we couldn’t just all four go in and let Carolyn make one) we decided we could make candy at home.\u00a0 They even have “make your own candy bar” kits in the gift shop for a much more reasonable price.<\/p>\n

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No cheesy photo ops here, we had to use a bench.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, we hit the road and drove straight home with just one stop for a quick dinner (we had to collect a couple more Smurfs from McDonald’s, of course).\u00a0 The drive was absolutely lovely – perfect scenery and perfect weather.\u00a0 Even the knock knock jokes were mostly tolerable:<\/p>\n

Knock, knock!
\nWho’s there?
\nInterrupting smurf!
\nInterrupting smurf wh-
\nLa, la, la la la la, la, la la la la!
\n(Yes, that’s the smurf theme. No, they’ve never seen the smurfs.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are home!\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The kids thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-fun","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}