March 21, 2010. We arrived around noon and had a great lunch at the Devon Restaurant at 21 West Chocolate Avenue in Hershey.
Walking across the shared parking lot, we arrived at the Hershey Story Museum. Inside was a very spacious two story facility with a complete history of Milton Hershey, his family, his business and his schools.
On display was a complete story of the making of chocolate starting with the Cocoa Bean and the milk and the interesting machinery that blended and smoothed the chocolate.
There were lots of exhibits outlining Milton Hershey's work ethic and many movies and advertising signs from the old days of his business.
Many "hands on" exhibits explaining the chocolate history including map pointers that Liam was able to move, also push button displays and many telephones throughout the museum with interesting messages. One of the popular things was to get your picture taken in a booth and send it to anyone over the internet. A newspaper headline was added before it was sent out.
There were several historic artifacts that explained how life was in the old old days.
The museum had a cafe, but we just had lunch, so we didn't even check it out.
When Liam is having fun, it doesn't matter where he is.
At the gift store, I noticed that there were real Reese's Peanut Butter CUPS.
Leaving the museum, we headed out to the new Metro Bank Park Baseball Stadium. It's not yet completed but is expected to open in April 2010.
Back at home, Liam shows his skill at picking lettered cards by the sound of the word. He did very good here. Easy to please, he was having fun with ice cubes.
Ending the day we passed Batman and stopped at Duke's Riverside restaurant along the Susquehanna River and had a great dinner.
A full day for Liam and he finally crashed.
