Lancaster County Pa.

Wed. We drove to Milton Hershey School for a 1/2 hour tour.  We left four hours later and that's because they were closing.  the school and family homes are very different from others we have been to.  Milton and Kitty could not have children so they started a home for boys and left an endowment of $60,000,000 which is about 1 1/2 billion dollars today.  Only the interest could be used. They are planing 2,000 children in the program by next year.  these are children that have lost there parents or good kids in troubled homes.  They come from 32 states.  Top pictures are of founders hall built in 1970. 2nd left picture is in the middle of the dome entry as you go around the center it shows Hershey History. The 2nd picture is Milton and Kitty Hershey and next to that Milton Hershey with one of the boys. the bottom picture is the new and past together the horse and rider were in the cafeteria for many years then they remodeled and made it brighter. The middle bottom picture is the auditorium (which they have plays and are free for the public to come and see) Bottom right is a dedication to the building for  Milton and Catherine Hershey. We went to church in Lebanon Pa. a very small church we had about 20 folks there.

 Thur. was a rough for us we did find some issues from our past that will help us do better in the future.  We did go to Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery and get our Official Pretzel Twister certificate.  Below top left where the flour and other ingred. were mixed the picture next to it you take the handle up and down to beat the ingred. Then you roll the dough about 18 inches twist it twice bring it over and press down a little(top rt. pictures). You put pretzels in a wet solution let drip dry put in 550 degrees oven for ten min.(middle left) then to hot upper room to continue to bake till done.  Sturgis was the first to make hard pretzels.  Middle 2nd and 3rd picture our lunch was a ginger peach cold soup and tomato pie with grit patty and fruit.
all yummy.  Middle rt. the Lititz train station.  Inside is the visitor center and this old bench table(bottom left).  We then went to Wilber Chocolate.  Bottom 3rd picture is what they call a Chocolate Buds (15 years before Hershey Kisses). They also were wrapped in silver wrap but today the are in a package(bottom 3rd picture). Bottom right is some of the many molds they use  and other company's used to make there chocolates.

 We left there and drove around Lancaster county.  Top left one of the many farms in the area. Top two right farmers cutting the corn using the horses for power. 2nd left they have many barns for drying out tobacco.  Next to that a wooden bridge.  2nd right we went into a store and they had these live bees making honey. 3rd row left one of the Amish bikes.  Both young and old use them they are like a scooter with handle bars.  Next to it some of the horse and buggies that drove in the streets.  We stopped by a quilt shop (bottom left) and a furniture store (bottom right).

Fri. We did the blog., bills, and had a relaxing evening.
Sat. We drove to the post office to get our mail then back to Lancaster County to Hershey Restaurant for the Whoopee Pie Festival.  The buggie and Amish man was in the parking lot area.  The top right picture is of the festival. Middle left I am making my own whoopie pie with lots of toppings.  2nd middle picture they had over a 100 varieties of pies. Right middle picture is a giant pie.  After we left there we went to a Amish restaurant which has all you can eat.  After we got filled up we went to Starbucks for coffee and I could use the Internet to post the blog.  Almost all of this area is 3g which is not power enough to use the Internet.  We were lucky enough to get tickets at the Sight and Sound for Moses (pictures bottom row).  It was very well done and we both enjoyed the play.

Sun. We went to church then back home for quite day.
Mon. We took a long walk and did laundry started a fire and cooked banana supreme.  You put banana, marshmallows,chocolate chips, and as a bonus MMs. We cooked them over the fire and got into the wonderful dessert.

Tues. We went on a bike ride in the park.  Went shopping then posted the blog.