Camping

We went camping this past weekend with my parents to Lancaster Pa. It was a great time with a long drive in the beginning and the end. We rented a cabin as we will not be picking up our camper until roughly 4th of July. It was really nice. Emily learned to play Minature Golf and had a really good time.
We went to Hershey on Monday and went on the Chocolate World tour. Years ago, it was much cooler. Now... well... it smelled like chocolate and Em had fun.
But the gift shop was something else. Miles and miles of candy. Everything Hershey makes. That was great. Emily kept asking for M&Ms! Sorry honey, wrong manufacturer. They had this exhibit that you could make kisses, package them and so on. So, I asked the girl how many kisses you get, thinking this would be something great for Em to do so she could give them to her cousins and say that she made them. Oh, you don't get to keep the kisses. What a rip off. Let me pay you to push a button or two and then leave. Can you say RIP OFF?
We spent one day at the outlets. Now, if you have never been to the Pa outlets, you have no idea what outlet shopping really is about. None of these outlet malls with the same stores over and over again. This is where outlet shopping started. With factory irregulars and way out of season stuff. We walke out with some great deals.
Then there were the fabric stores. All 8 billion of them. Okay. 3-4 would have been fine. But I had enough quickly and the guys and Em were done long before me.
But the food. The Amish sure have good old fashioned cooking. Fried chicken and mashed potatoes, there was this one store that was all jellies, jams and relishes. Yumm! Cookies and Shoo Fly Pie (imagine sugar in a pie tin).
Emily loved looking out for the horse and buggies. We bought her a pairie hat, like Little House on the Prarie. We couldn't get her to take it off for days. It was great. Kept the sun off of her.
We spent one day at the amusement park, no not Hershey. I refused to pay nearly $100 per person. We went to this other one that was like a carnival on steroids. But Emily loved it. There were the flying swings and the log flume. And... we only spent about $125. That's not bad.