Chocolate World 
Wall to wall chocolate and candy! Anything you could imagine was sold at this place: kisses, york mints, twizzlers, 5 lb chocolate bars, t-shirts, basketballs, pillows shaped like reese’s peanut butter cups! Etc. It was great fun.
Chocolate Drinks
A highlight of our trip came in six little shot glasses. We bought a tray of chocolate from around the world: Mexico, Ecuador, Sao Thomas, Madagascar, Tanzania, and an Indonesian Island called Java. Each chocolate was flavored uniquely to that part of the world, complete with its own strength of cocao. Very very strong, to light, almost like milk chocolate. It was such fun to each get to try theses different chocolates and enjoy the differences.
Milton Hershey
The Chocolate Museum and factories were amazing to tour. The story of Milton Hershey is really quite an incredible on of dedication, generosity, good luck and again generosity. He never laid off an employee even during the depression and war years, instead he put his factory workers to work building a stadium or the park. He stopped production of his Hershey kisses during the war to preserve the aluminum and instead provided chocolate bars in the soldier’s rations. He built a school for under privileged children which is still successful today and mandated that the majority of the profits from the factory go to the school. We wouldn’t have such amazing chocolate if it weren’t for one amazing coincidence. Hershey and his wife had tickets to the maiden voyage of the Titanic but had to reschedule because she got sick!! That would have been such a tragedy!
One of the days it was raining so steadily (imagine that!) that they had to close down most of the rides so we headed to
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